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Road safety advocates in the Philippines and around the world want government, stakeholders and advocates to abandon the use of the word “accident” in referring to road crashes.
Read More...Buy a car seat for your kids today. Why? It’s better to have one and not need it than to need it and not have one.
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Read More...According to the WHO, just one kilometer per hour increase in one’s speed increases the risk of injury by at least 3% and the risk of a fatality by 4-5%. Further, studies have shown that speed is the primary cause in 30% of fatal road crashes and an aggravating factor in about 50% of fatal road crashes.
Read More...Known as the Data for Road Incident Visualization Evaluation and Reporting (DRIVER), the system is “a web application that is designed to view, collect, and analyze road incident data in the Philippines,” specifically traffic incidents, disruption, and crimes.
Read More...According to ImagineLaw, a non-stock, non-profit public interest law organization which advocates road safety and which helped craft JMC 2018-001, in its study of 100 LGUs, only 56 had issued speed limit ordinances as the others had left the practice to the national government.
Read More...Four years after one of the country’s most deadly road tragedies, the government and civil society groups have crafted a new policy that would help prevent its repeat, targeting what they say is the most significant contributor to road fatalities — speeding.
Read More...Under the new guidelines, LGUs will be permitted to lower speed limits on roads within its jurisdiction via approval from the DOTr and DPWH. They are also being encouraged to enact speed limit ordinances. “JMC 2018-001 is not a new law. It is a mechanism that fortifies the implementation of Section 35 of RA 4136,” the DOTr says.
Read More...Maaari nang magtakda ang mga pamahalaang lokal ng speed limit sa kanilang mga nasasakupang kalsada. Ito ay batay sa Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) 2018-001 na nilagdaan ng Department of Transportation (DOTr), Department Of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), at Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Read More...Sa kabila ng mga dating batas sa pagbabawal ng magmaneho na lagpas sa speed limit, hindi pa naman daw kasi mahigpit na naipatutupad ito. Pagkatapos ng anim na buwan, babalikang ng Transportation Department, DPWH, at DILG ang mga LGU kung naipatutupad ang mga ordinansa.
Read More...ImagineLaw’s Atty. Sophia San Luis cited WHO’s recommendation of an intervention in order to eradicate, if not, minimize road crashes, ‘we’re trying to introduce an effective intervention to prevent the continuing rise of the trend of road crashes’ and evidently enough with this new JMC, DOTr along with its partners are determined to solve road crash incidents.
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