A 28-year-old woman was killed when she was hit by a bus in Bacolod City Sunday, the police said yesterday.

Dancyn Agsam of Brgy. Sta. Cruz, Talisay City, Negros Occidental, was brought to the Doctors' Hospital with multiple injuries after a Ceres bus hit the motorcycle she and her husband, Rostum, were riding, at the corner of B.S. Aquino-Hilado streets, in the city, at about 3 p.m. Sunday, police records show.

Agsam died an hour later while her husband is still confined at the hospital, PO3 Roy Badilla said.

Jessie Flores, the bus driver, told the police he was following the couple when he turned right at Hilado Street and did not see them through his side mirror.

Flores surrendered to Police Station 4 after the incident, police reports said. Badilla said it will depend on Agsam's family if they will file charges against the driver.

Agsam was the first casualty of a vehicular accident in the city this year, Bacolod City Police Office Traffic Management Unit records show.

As of yesterday, 11 persons have been injured in road accidents, the records show.

Last year, 54 people died and 628 were injured in vehicular accidents, most of which involved jeepneys and motorcycles.

Government agencies, including the Philippine National Police and the Land Transportation Office have been campaigning for motorists to be more careful in driving and to observe traffic rules.

SPO1 Felix Diamante Jr. of the TMU, however, said that through the years, drivers still routinely ignore traffic rules, citing the number of license confiscations they made in 2007 that reached 2,041, mostly for beating red lights, obstruction, and ignoring of road signs.*PP

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