CEBU CITY – More than 11,000 road crashes resulting in numerous deaths were recorded in Central Visayas from January to October this year. The Highway Patrol Group-Central Visayas (HPG-7) reported that 11,313 road accidents were recorded in the first 10 months of the year with 240 fatalities. The...
Senator Grace Poe called for the urgent passage of a transportation safety bill amid the increasing number of deaths and injuries due to road mishaps that will be tasked to probe these incidents. Senator Grace Poe "Lives are lost and injuries are sustained daily by motorists for reasons that could...
For almost all motor vehicle owners, the Compulsory Third Party Liability (CTPL) is just something that needs to be paid just for the heck of complying with the requirement for motorcycle or car registration and renewal. Some do not know what it does, and most motor vehicle owners do not even...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has reiterated his call for the government to implement stricter measures to address the alarming rise in road accidents. Pimentel made the call following recent data report from the Department of Health (DOH) that logged 577 road...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday, Jan. 1, announced that over 500 road traffic incidents had been reported since last month. (KEITH BACONGCO / MANILA BULLETIN) DOH said that it has been monitoring road traffic incidents in eight pilot areas, and based on the latest data gathered, a...
Department of Health The Department of Health (DOH) reported 418 road accidents from Dec. 22 to 6 a.m. on Dec. 29, a 38 percent increase compared to the same period in 2023. Just in the past 24 hours, 68 new cases were recorded. The DOH said motorcycle accidents remain the most common type of...
Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. has filed a resolution seeking to look into the proliferation of large-scale billboards in major thoroughfares as they may pose dangers to road users. MB file photo In Senate Resolution No. 924, Revilla said that LED billboards cause distractions to people...
Senator Raffy Tulfo has filed a resolution that seeks to investigate road accidents caused by the mishandling and improper maintenance of live wires and unattended wires. In filing Senate Resolution (SR) No. 922, Tulfo noted that there has been an alarming increase in road accidents nationwide...
Road accidents involving passenger jeepneys, the recent was in Laguna that left two people dead and 17 others injured, serve as a wake-up call to modernize the country’s public transportation, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) said on Sunday, Jan. 21. LTO chief Assistant Secretary Vigor D....
Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Vigor D. Mendoza II has ordered all regional directors and district office heads of the agency to intensify a regular road worthiness inspection of public utility buses in terminals following a fatal road accident in Antique that left at least 12 people dead....
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is pushing for more stringent requirements in issuing driver’s license and thorough road worthiness inspection of all motor vehicles as it sets its goal of reducing road accident deaths by 35 percent before the end of the term of President Marcos. DOTr...
A four-year old boy died while a girl was injured after a passenger bus hit them in front of a school along Commonwealth Avenue, Barangay Fairview, Quezon City on Thursday, May 5. According to the police report, the children were standing in front of North Fairview Elementary School at 7:40 p.m....
