My wife told me a sad story the other day regarding a distant relation in Siquijor, this woman was standing at a corner when a drunk on a motorbike managed to run into her and break her arm, it turned out that the drunk had no registration or insurance or money (only money for tanduay) so her arm was never fixed, this happened over 1 month ago so the woman has all sorts of complications to the injury now but the drunk is still on the road with the motorbike as the police feel sorry for him as he would not be able to carry out his business with no motorbike.
So it seems that if Dumaguete is the wild west then Siquijor is the wild wild west.
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I had a local knock over my bike while he was drunk at Why Not. I didn't see a peso from him. His mother was very rude and disrespectful and told me it was my fault that her drunk son knocked over my bike
. The police didn't give a crap and I just walked away and paid the 10k to repaint the bike myself. Wasn't worth dealing with that fat cow or the mama's boy. I did end up getting his bike impounded for a couple days though. 
Another time I hit a girl running across the street on my motorcycle in Kalibo. She had a 7 peso prescription written at the hospital (their government hospital is actually free....for the girl and me...I just had to pay the electricity costs for them turning on the x-ray machine and the medication for my shoulder, the doctors and nurses wouldn't take anything for their services and insisted the hospital was free). The girl was given a clean bill of health from the doctors (she had a small scratch on her head). The family was fine with this at first and said everything was good to go and signed an agreement at the police station with me (drawn up by the police). The next day they come to the police station and say they want 20k pesos just in case she needs to go to the doctor again. The police were very indifferent on it and said I had to come to an agreement with them before they would release my bike and that the agreement that we signed the day before didn't count because the police can't write binding agreements. I told the father they could either take P8k and sign an agreement (drawn up by a lawyer and notarized) saying they would never come after me for more money or they could hire a lawyer and take me to court. They took the P8k and signed the agreement and the police released my bike.
I have been through the police station here in Dumaguete a couple times because of drunk friends acting like fools (a friend got drunk and tried to steal a locals scooter....then dropped it). The police were fair enough in those situations where my friends were at fault. I don't have a positive or negative view of the Dumaguete police really, seems it can go either way at the flip of a coin.-
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A couple additional comments:
Why does the contents of the truck make the slightest bit of difference? Is this bit of information critical to determining how this accident happened? Maybe they were trying to imply that the truck was very heavy and couldn't have stopped in time?
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So the driver didn't have time to step on the brakes but he had time to honk his horn(s?
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