No moral values: 9 in 10 drivers mindless

MOST just drive mindless of the mayhem or murder they can inflict on the road after all, nine of 10 bus drivers in the metropolis totally lack moral values.

Thus claimed the Land Transportation Office reported Wednesday in a report and LTO Law Enforcement Service Director Edgardo Cabase admitted that most metropolitan bus drivers involved in freak road accidents are reckless drivers.

Cabase said the LTO is now considering teaching moral values to drivers of passenger buses, even of jeepneys and taxis who seem to know traffic laws but ignore them.

The value formation Cabase said may impart public vehicle drivers a sense of responsibility and respect for human lives.

Cabase added that they intend to include traffic enforcers in the value formation.

He said they would also coordinate with bus operators to have the scheme be instilled on the minds of their drivers, including road-worthiness of their buses.

Meanwhile the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) leveled preventive suspension on the bus driver and operator of the bus involved in the accident at the Plaza Lawton, Manila yesterday morning..

LTFRB Board Member Atty. Manuel Iway said they are awaiting the police report on the accident before calling the bus company and give them show cause order before slapping a 30-day preventive suspension.

Iway also said that the LTFRB is conducting its own seminar to bus drivers at the University of the Philippines (UP) National Center for Training Studies to prevent similar incidents in the future.

One person was killed and seven others were wounded in the said accident when the bus running at murderous speed rammed into five other vehicles.

The Earth Star Express Bus (PWG-638) came from Quiapo and was hurtling down Quezon Bridge when it lost control and slammed a passenger jeep (Dapitan-Libertad route) that stopped for its passengers to get off the vehicle.

Before ramming the jeepney, the bus hit Rolando Roldan who was only crossing the street and landed under the jeep that was dragged several meters by the bus.

The jeep also hit an FX taxi that, in turn, hit another jeep and an FX that also rammed at another bus in domino fashion.

The bus driver and its conductor immediately fled after the incident. –JING VILLAMENTE CORRESPONDENT, Manila Times