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....
NAGCARLAN, Laguna – A two-year-old girl and a 45-year-old man were killed and 15 persons were injured after a passenger jeepney lost its brakes and crashed into multiple vehicles in Nagcarlan town in Laguna province on Friday afternoon, January 19. MAP of Nagcarlan, Laguna. A...
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – A 51-year-old man died when his tricycle collided with a truck on the national highway in Barangay Bulbulala, Santiago, this province, on Thursday night. Police identified the victim as Jerry Mariano, a resident of Barangay Apatot, San Esteban, Ilocos Sur. Investigation...
NASUGBU, Batangas – A driver was killed after his truck rammed a dump truck parked on the roadside in Barangay Kaylaway here on Thursday morning, January 18. Police identified the victim as Roland Valdoz, 52, of Barangay Banilad, this town. Investigation said Valdoz was driving a...
BARAS, Catanduanes – The Maria Joson Teves Diversion Road here opened to traffic on Monday afternoon, January 15. Rev. Fr. Nestor R. Buena led the blessing and inauguration attended by Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Bicol Assistant Regional Director Engr. Marilou Lacuna,...
SANTA, Ilocos Sur – A woman and her back rider died in an accident when a pick-up truck rammed their motorcycle on the national highway in Sitio Pideg, Barangay Magsaysay District, this town, on Saturday afternoon, January 13. Police Capt. Mark Bryan Corpuz, Santa chief of police, identified...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A bus conductor was gunned down in a road rage shooting on the Candelaria-San Juan Road on Thursday afternoon, January 11, in Barangay Santa Catalina, this town. POLICE forensics probers process the crime scene on the Eco-Tourism Road in Candelaria, Quezon where a bus...
A sustained crackdown against overloaded trucks and trailers, which threaten road safety and can result in fatal road accidents, was ordered early this week by the Land Transportation Office (LTO). In the national highways, an overloaded truck is an accident waiting to happen because its...
SAN FRANCISCO, Quezon – A woman died and 26 were injured after a passenger jeepney plunged into a canal in Sitio Sentro, Barangay Butanguiad, this town, on Tuesday afternoon, January 2. Police identified the fatality as Juanita Sarmiento. ONE person was killed and 26 others were injured...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – Twenty-five persons were injured in a multiple collision on Villa Verde Trail in Barangay Santa Maria East, San Nicolas, Pangasinan on New Year’s Day. The Police Regional Office-1 said a Starex van with 10 people on board driven by Pastor Arnel Marzo Camba, 36, of...
ARITAO, Nueva Vizcaya – Two persons were killed and 20 were injured in a collision between a commuter van and closed van in Purok 4, Barangay Nagcuartelan, here, on Tuesday, January 2. TWO died in a two-vehicle collision in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya on January 2. (Photo via Liezle...
SARIAYA, Quezon – Nine persons were injured in a three-vehicle collision on the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Gibanga here on Friday afternoon, December 29. NINE persons were injured a three-vehicle crash on the Maharlika Highway in Sariaya, Quezon on December 29. (Photo via Danny Estacio)...
