MANILA, Philippines — A Quezon City court has sentenced two bus drivers to two years in prison over a road crash that claimed the life of veteran journalist Chit Estella in 2011 — a decision that ends over a decade of waiting for justice for her family and colleagues.
“Finally, a long-overdue decision that brings the two drivers and their bus companies to justice… Chit can finally rest in peace,” said Estella’s husband, retired University of the Philippines professor Roland Simbulan, in aIn 2011, Estella was on her way to a dinner with friends at Ayala Technohub and was traversing Commonwealth Avenue when Ancheta, who drove the Nova bus, hit the taxi she was riding on the right side.
Both bus drivers "had the last clear chance to avoid the collision had they exercised reasonable care and precaution in driving their respective buses," the decision said. Over a year after her death, the Quezon City government also installed a Commonwealth Road Safety Marker on a sidewalk near the Ayala TechnoHub in her honor.Estella led an illustrious career both in the media and the academe.
Estella is also one of many key figures whose name is carved into the remembrance walls of the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. On its website, the Bantayog ng mga Bayani described Estella in the eyes of her colleagues as a "compassionate, but principled and straight-as-an-arrow journalist, who chose the hard choices because it was what it meant to be committed to the truth.
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