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Category: Road Safety Stories

  • Categories Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page The Fellows

    ROAD SAFETY ISSUE NO. 5: Protecting the Filipino pedestrian

    Oct 04, 2016 4:47 PM

    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 […]


  • Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page Uncategorized

    The blurry drunk driving situation

    Sep 18, 2016 3:00 PM

    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 […]


  • Categories Banner Chit's Desk Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Five years after, still no justice for Ma’am Chit

    Aug 19, 2016 11:30 PM

    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 […]

    #SafeRoadsPH, chit estella, Commonwealth Ave., road safety, speeding

  • Categories Banner Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Despite glaring data, road crashes ‘not a public health issue’

    Aug 18, 2016 3:33 PM

    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. […]

    #roadsafety, #SafeRoadsPH, house of representatives, road crash

  • Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Speeding but not getting home

    Aug 12, 2016 3:09 PM

    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 […]

    #SafeRoadsPH, don mariano bus, Philippines, road crash, road safety, speed limiters, speeding

  • Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Obstructions make some Metro Manila roads disappear 

    Aug 12, 2016 2:38 PM

    By BRENDA BARRIENTOS-VALLARTA The Senate Committee on Public Services on Wednesday started to hear proposals to grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to solve the worsening traffic problem in Metro Manila and other urban areas. In the House of Representatives, several similar bills had been filed. But while Congress deliberates on possible powers to negotiate […]

    #SafeRoadsPH, missing streets, obstructions, road safety, traffic

  • Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Take your hands off that cellphone

    Aug 01, 2016 9:30 PM

    By IRA V. PANGANIBAN RARE is a Filipino driver involved in a car crash while using his cellphone that would admit  that his using of the gadget while driving caused the difficulty he got himself into, said former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Francis Tolentino. “Not even if he has his hand on the […]

    Distracted Driving, MMDA, Philippines Road Safety

  • Categories Arts & Culture Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Education, not humiliation, for drunk drivers

    Aug 01, 2016 9:04 PM

    By MICHAEL JOE T. DELIZO   RC Rodriguez, 28, is one lucky guy. He has figured in more than one road crash while driving under the influence of liquor and he is still alive. Once, after imbibing two bottles of one-liter beer, he was driving at 100 kilometer per hour when his tire blew up […]

    Dunk Driving, Duterte, MMDA

  • Categories Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page Top Stories

    So many drunk drivers, so few breathalyzers

    Aug 01, 2016 7:39 PM

    By DINNA LOUISE C. DAYAO One day in December 2015, Dr. Carol Araullo was riding a pick-up that was cruising on Commonwealth Avenue. Suddenly, a driver in a sedan rammed into a multicab vehicle; the multicab spun from the impact and hit the pick-up. Six passengers of the multicab were injured in the three-car crash, according […]

    Breathalyzers, DOTC, Drunk Driving, LTO, MMDA

  • Categories Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page Uncategorized

    Penalizing Distracted Driving

    Jul 28, 2016 1:31 PM

    Tinkering with your cellphone while driving is now punishable by law. The Anti-Distracted Driving Bill lapsed into law in July 21. Road Safety Journalism fellow Jacque Manabat reported on the highlights of the new policy last June. Let’s revisit her story here:

    #SafeRoadsPH, Anti distracted driving, road safety

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