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...
TIAONG, Quezon – Three professors of the Southern Luzon State University here died after they were struck by a utility jeepney in Barangay Lagalag, this town, on Wednesday night, July 26.  Police identified the fatalities as Cheryl Baracael Bundalian, 27, of Dolores, Quezon; Rosie Campus...
CAMP DIEGO SILANG, La Union – A butcher and a rider died in separate accidents along the roads in La Union in the early hours of Thursday, June 15. Police identified the first victim as Edgar Lloveras Estigoy, 63, a butcher and a resident of Barangay San Felipe, San Juan, La Union....
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....
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III (MANILA BULLETIN) Noting a rise in traffic accident-related deaths, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III called on Congress to pass his measure that seeks to make reckless driving a non-probationable offense. Under...
Art Bermido presents his latest abstraction works with Quezon Province’s budding artist Zerbon Ong Abstraction is more than just an array of colors on a canvas. It is a style that allows artists to let go of perfection. Its beauty lies in the spontaneity of the process, from the way painters...
BACOLOD CITY – Crimes and traffic accidents here slightly decreased in 2022. The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) reported that there were only 1360 accidents in the year just past, 79 lesser than 1439 incidents recorded in 2021. For peace and order, a total of 1,079 crime incidents were...
Senator Grace Poe is calling for a stricter enforcement of putting up road and public safety signages to lessen car accidents as well as risks to pedestrians. A car blocked the bus lane along the EDSA underpass in Mandaluyong City after its driver tried to avoid a motorcycle on January 1, 2021....
