Wayward car kills carpenter

BATAC CITY, Oct. 27– Fidencio Isao, 44, carpenter of Quiling Norte, this city was dead on arrival at the hospital due to severe head injury after he was hit by a car along the national highway at Brgy. Billoca here yesterday.

Police said the victim parked his motorcycle at the roadside when a car coming from the north fatally hit him and also injured another who was driving a kurong-kurong (improvised tricycle.)

Investigators said the car driver claimed he was sleepy when he lost control of the vehicle.