Imagine yourself riding in public utility vehicle (PUV) loaded with passengers and that include you. Imagine the driver is texting while driving on his way. All of a sudden it went to the other lane and going face to face with another vehicle.
photo is mine
That is a nightmare. Your life at risk just because of reckless driver texting or calling through his mobile cellphone while driving.
Fear no more because a law penalizing these kinds of drivers will effect into law. No more texting, calling, playing games while driving is strictly prohibited and if so happen you violate this law, a hefty fine and possible confiscation of driver’s license will be imposed.
The Republic Act 10913 also known as Anti-Distracted Law of the Philippines will punish drivers who engage in texting, calling, playing games and computing through mobile gadgets while driving any of vehicle.
Those who will be caught doing this will be penalize with P5,000, P10,000 and P15,000 fines for first, send and third offense respectively. The revocation of driver’s license can also be imposed to the driver. Some other commission could even face a higher penalty.
How about those making calls for emergency purposes? The law exempts them from doing so provided it’s really emergency calls. Even the drivers of ambulances, fire trucks and other law enforcement agencies are also exempted.
The move is the right thing to do with so many vehicular accidents happening in the road. Some of these drivers are engage in distracted driving, drunk driving or other causes. Distracted drivers are prone to accidents because their attention is not focus in driving but something else like mobile phones that may lead to an accident.
The road accidents caused many deaths among drivers and passengers. The security of the passengers must be strictly observed and with this kind of law, we have the means to control the drivers in this kind of wrongdoing while driving.###
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It is a good law, and should be strictly implemented to safeguard lives of passengers, even of the drivers. If they wanted to answer an emergency call or a text, they should stop at the roadside to attend to it.
While on the road, I can see people doing that, driving while talking on their cellphones, even those who are on motorcycles!
I experienced this many times, while riding a passenger utility van or mini-bus there are drivers who actually texting and calling while driving. Some passengers just took a photo and posted them in facebook because there was no other way penalize this kind of drivers.
But now there's this law penalizing them.