Car Accident
Dulce Saguisag was killed in a serious car accident on November 8, 2007, on President Osmeña Highway in Makati City. Her husband, Rene Saguisag, was seriously injured in the accident. Two other people riding in the same Toyota Grandia van as the Saguisags, including Filipino dance instructor, Rhea Imelda Obong, and driver, Felipe Calvario, were also seriously injured in the accident. All four were rushed to Ospital ng Makati where Dulce Saguisag was pronounced dead from her injuries.
The Toyota that Ducle Saguisag was riding in, which was travelling on Pasay Road, was struck by a dump truck at the corner of the President Osmeña Highway in Makati City at about 2 A.M. The dump truck had reportedly been speeding when it ran a traffic light and struck the left side of the Saguisags' van, killing Dulce. Police arrested the driver of the dump truck at the scene of the accident.
Dulce Saguisag's funeral was held on November 16, 2007. The service began with a two hour Roman Catholic mass at the chapel of St. Scholastica’s College in Manila, which Saguisag had attended. The funeral procession then passed Saguisag's "ancestral home" on Bigasan Street in Makati City. Dulce Saguisag was buried in the Garden of Reverence section of the Manila Memorial Park cemetery in Parañaque City.
Three hundred people attended her funeral. Prominent mourners included former Filipino Presidents Corazon Aquino and Joseph Estrada, Vice President Noli de Castro, San Juan City Mayor Joseph Victor Ejercito, and Gina de Venecia, the wife of the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives Jose de Venecia.
After a month, on December 8, 2007, Senator Rene Saguisag was released from the hospital, freed from tubes, but “still needs assistance by a hired a private nurse. He lost lots of weight. He was out of the ICU on November 28, or 20 days from the fatal accident.Their youngest daughter 16-year old gymnast Kaissa Saguisag's knee injury ended her quest for gold at the 24th Southeast Asian Games .
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