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Categories The Chit Estella Road Safety PageROAD SAFETY SERIES NO. 6: Creating a most potent mix for a driving disaster
Driving under the influence (DUI) is a main cause of road crashes in the Philippines.
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Categories The Chit Estella Road Safety PageROAD SAFETY SERIES NO. 5: Child safety not a major concern for drivers, riders
In many cases, the lack of child restraint systems in cars, for children 4 to 7 years old is a common cause of injuries.
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Categories Arts & Culture The Chit Estella Road Safety PageTexting while driving continues despite law
By MICHAEL JOE T. DELIZO MORE than two months after Republic Act 10913 or the Anti-Distracted Driving Act lapsed into law, it has hardly changed the bad habits of many Filipino drivers. Many are seen making calls and texting while driving. Joselle Segismundo, 25, an employee of Land Transportation Office, is knowledgeable about the law. […]
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Categories Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page The Fellows
ROAD SAFETY ISSUE NO. 5: Protecting the Filipino pedestrian
By RAYMOND GREGORY TRIBDINO MOST motorists do not consider pedestrians are road users. This makes pedestrians, everywhere in the world, high-risk safety concerns. Annually over 270,000 pedestrians perish in collisions on the road. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that pedestrians constitute 22% of all road traffic fatalities. According to WHO’s Global Status Report on […]
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Categories Road Safety 101 The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
ROAD SAFETY SERIES NO. 4: Distracted driving dissected
Distracted driving is a creation of the digital revolution. But there is no humor in it being a serious and growing threat to road safety.
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Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page UncategorizedThe blurry drunk driving situation
By DINNA LOUISE C. DAYAO The extraordinary thing about Republic Act No. 10586 or the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act of 2013 is that it was enacted despite the lack of coherent data on drunk driving in the country. For years, three government agencies have been gathering data on road traffic injuries and deaths: the […]
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Categories Banner Chit's Desk Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety PageFive years after, still no justice for Ma’am Chit
By JAKE SORIANO [metaslider id=48020] Photos by LALA ORDENES At first glance, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court looks more like a church than a court. An assortment of statues — Christ on the cross, the child Jesus, the Virgin Mary — stare down on court employees, lawyers, police officers, nervous witnesses, family members of […]
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Categories Banner Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety PageDespite glaring data, road crashes ‘not a public health issue’
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WITH startling clarity, 22-year-old Joshua Broqueza recalls how a split second in his life landed him in a hospital bed, bleeding and almost lifeless. It was in the middle of the night, when he and his friends aboard a Toyota Vios were on the Albay province’s so-called killer highway, Maharlika Highway. […]
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Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety PageSpeeding but not getting home
By IRA V. PANGANIBAN Nine days before Christmas three years ago, a Don Mariano bus fell off the Skyway in Bicutan, Taguig and landed on a delivery van below, crushing the driver to death. The bus driver survived but 18 of his passengers never got to celebrate Christmas. At least 20 were injured. Investigation later […]
