Just few hours after her cryptic post, a retired St Lukes Hospital Nurse, her husband former Sagada Town Mayor James Pooten Jr and 2 other relatives die in a car crash, just a week after their arrival in Canada; adding to the more than 10 Filipinos who died involving car accidents in Canada within the last 10 years.
It is a tragic death for retired St Lukes Hospital Nurse (Quezon City) Cymbeline Joan Lumpias-Pooten, Former Sagada, Mt Province Town Mayor James Bagano Pooten Jr, who just arrived for holiday visit in Canada. Prior to the accident, Cymbeline posted a cryptic post on her Facebook account with a “days are numbered” which seem to show she had a premonition of the tragedy. Died alongside with them in the accident are their 2 other relatives, Arlene and Jacob Padalla. May God rest their souls.
In October 2023, a newly wed Filipino couple, Jonathan Lopez and April Viernes, were killed by a suspected impaired driver. In June 2018, 50-year-old Filipina Isabel Soria was also killed in by hit-and-run in Ontario. In November 2014, four Filipinos were also killed in a car accident in Alberta, Canada. The next month, December, 2014, another three Filipinos workers including also a newly married couple returning from their language class were killed in a highway crash.
In March 2012, four Filipino temporary workers also died in a car crash when their SUV were struck head-on by a Range Rover travelling on the wrong side of the road.
THE CORDILLERA CONNECTION 