CITY OF SANTO TOMAS, Batangas – Five persons died and three were injured in a collision between a truck and a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) in Barangay San Miguel, this city, before dawn on Saturday, December 23. Police withheld the identities of the victims. The fatalities and injured were...
Five people died while three others were injured when a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) figured in a head-on collision with a truck in Sto. Tomas, Batangas early morning on Saturday, Dec. 23. Police Lt. Col. Rodel Ban-o, chief of police of Sto. Tomas City police, said all the eight peop[le on board the...
CALAUAG, Quezon – Seven persons were injured after their van plunged into a ravine on the Maharlika Highway, Barangay Bagong Silang, here, on Wednesday morning, December 20. Police identified the victims as Naprel Santiago, 32, driver, and passengers Jocelyn Ervas, 61; Marlyn Marangot, 61;...
Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Vigor D. Mendoza II urged on Tuesday, Dec. 19, school authorities to include a visit at the agency’s newly-opened Road Safety Interactive Center (RSIC) in their educational tour in order to educate their students at a young age the importance of road...
SANTA ANA, Cagayan – Twenty-one individuals were injured after their passenger jeepney overturned in Barangay San Vicente here on Friday, December 15. A PASSENGER jeepney overturned in Cagayan and injured 15 persons. (Photo via Liezle Inigo) Police identified the victims as Victor Agcaoili,...
Officials of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) across the country were ordered to intensify the conduct of inspection of all passenger buses to ensure their road worthiness amid the expected influx of passengers for the Christmas break. LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II said the inspection covers all...
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, La Union – The Department of Public Works and Highways-La Union First District Engineering Office has completed two significant projects worth P58 million in this province. THE Baroro River flood mitigation project in Barangay Santa Rosa, San Juan, La Union. (Photo via...
ILOILO CITY – Antique Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao has urged the government to study her proposal for a new road to replace the killer curve in Hamtic, Antique following the December 5 bus accident in which 19 persons were killed and 10 injured. Cadiao said the permanent solution is to build a...
BACOLOD CITY – Popular reggae singer Kokoi Baldo died after he crashed and ran over by a 10-wheel truck loaded with sugarcane on the Circumferential Road in Purok Tultugan, Barangay Mandalagan, this city, before dawn on Friday, December 8. BALDO (FB) Police Major Armilyn Vargas, head of Police...
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...
ONE FOR THE ROAD The automotive industry lost a true icon. Television host, newspaper columnist, industry legend and godfather of the motoring beat, Ray Butch Gamboa, has reached his checkered flag. I first met sir Butch back in 2001, when I joined the automotive beat with C! Magazine. I was a...
