First accident recorded in Kalinga: Driver fell off a 30-meter ravine; car totally wrecked

Tabuk City, Kalinga – A man dozed off while driving and fell off a ravine at the descending curved portion of the road near Nambaran cemetery in Tabuk City Kalinga early morning of January 3, 2021.

This incident was the first recorded vehicular accident this year.

According to Kalinga Police Provincial Director PCol. Davy Vicente Limmong, the driver was sleep deprived and that he admitted to falling asleep which made him drive straight to the ravine, falling about 30 meters, “naturugan na ket tinmapwak.”

As a result, the vehicle he was driving was totally wrecked. Fortunately, as if by a miracle, the man only sustained minor injuries, was able to climb up the ravine, crawling, on to the highway, and waited to be rescued.

With what happened to the car and the depth of the fall, witnesses of the place and the wreckage say the driver couldn't have survived or would have sustained fatal injuries.

Rescuers who aided the man brought him to the hospital and is now undergoing recovery.

As of this writing, the car still remains at the scene.

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