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Friday, January 23, 2004
Slow moving vehicles banned on nat’l roads
THERE is a letter of instruction (LOI) prohibiting all slow moving vehicles from plying national highways, according to the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
LTO district officer Pat Urmaza said all law enforcement agencies have been directed to implement the LOI.
He said slow moving vehicles, like tricycle, bicycle, cart and kuliglig, are usually the cause of vehicular accidents along highways.
Urmaza, however, said the vehicles have been tolerated along national roads because the owners contended there are no passageways other than the highway.
He issued this statement following a road accident at Tuesday dawn in Aguilar town wherein the head-on collision of two passenger buses was caused by a kuliglig, a cart drawn by a hand tractor.
The driver of the Philippine Rabbit bus tried to evade the kuliglig, which did not have any light, and instead rammed a Five Star bus head on.
Five persons died and several others were injured in the accident.
“Several accidents had already occurred involving kuliglig and tricycles,” Urmaza said.
He lamented that the LTO does not have personnel who could be deployed to monitor the highways because they work only at daytime.
However, he called on owners of slow moving vehicles, since the government seems to have tolerated them, not to get out on highways at nighttime, especially since they do not have lights and reflectors.
Urmaza said they had already made representations in the LTO central office but up to now, the main office has not yet come up with a system on how to classify the vehicle. FPM
(January 23, 2004 issue)
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