BUS accident again

[jave]

bakit hindi na lang electric chair ilagay nila sa bus para pag nag over speed and biglang kabig ang bus makukuryente yung driver:evillaugh:evillaugh

I approve of this.

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Who's going to monitor the speeds of these buses? DOTC? MMDA? Local government flunkies? Who's going to enforce them? What about places where it's harder for GPS devices to get a lock? Still a lot of questions unanswered.

In the end, the ultimate solution to these problems is to drive these PUV imbeciles out of business by offering a true-blue, safer, more comfortable public transportation system. They need to think out of the box. (Adding more LRT/MRT do not count.) Anything else is just a stop-gap measure.

[Rev!t]

a shocking news article:

[SIZE=3][SIZE=2]Licensed To Kill[/SIZE]
[/SIZE][SIZE=2]By Junep Ocampo[/SIZE][SIZE=2] (The Philippine Star) Updated November 04, 2009 12:00 AM[/SIZE]

MANILA, Philippines - Arman dela Cruz (not his real name) just passed his actual driving examination in a small bus company. His operator told him that he can already start the following Monday. Excited about his new work, Arman couldn’t help but look forward to a promising life as bus driver.
Before leaving the employer’s tiny office, however, Arman was reminded by his new boss about a “secret”.
“Don’t tell anybody that I told you this,” the bus owner said in a hushed tone.
Arman listened intently, his mind hanging on his employer’s next words.
“If you figure in an accident, and I truly hope you don’t,” the bus owner said, knocking on his wooden desk with pictures of his loved ones under a clear plastic cover. “I did not tell you this, but if you must choose between a half-dead victim and a dead one, it is easier to deal with the latter.”
Arman, a former family driver, had heard similar advice once in a conversation with an elderly driver. But he wasn’t sure what it truly meant.
“Do you mean the company would rather have a dead victim than a victim who is alive yet injured?” Arman asked, just to confirm that he understood the instruction well.
The bus owner nodded and stared at the stack of paper on the left side of his desk.
“If the victim is alive and in the hospital, the bills never end. If the victim is dead, then we could already settle with the family and just pay them off.”
Arman was still having goosebumps as he replayed the conversation in his head on his way out of the bus terminal. He was wondering if his decision to be a bus driver – a job that would pay him at least P600 a day in commissions for a 10-hour work – was the right choice.

“Industry secret”

For 16 years, Dante Lantin served as chairman of the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB), the agency in charge of regulating public utility vehicles such as buses. While having lunch at a hotel in Pasay City where he attended a road safety conference, he talked to this writer on the issue of some bus drivers being “licensed to kill”.
He acknowledged the story of Arman as the Philippine bus industry’s “dirty secret”.
“No bus owner would admit it,” he said. “But if you would look closely, that’s what’s happening. It makes more economic sense to have a dead victim than a victim who is half dead yet requires expensive medical treatment.”
Lantin recalled hearing stories in the 80s of drivers intentionally backing up to run over their victims after an accident to make sure they were dead. However, the lack of witnesses and the inability of the victims’ families to pursue the case in court had led to amicable settlements.
The present LTFRB chairman, Alberto Suansing, also acknowledged those stories. In a telephone interview, he said, “Before, I refused to believe those stories. But it seems they are true.”

Full text of the article:

http://www.philstar.com/ArticlePrint...ticleId=520203

[MarcRio]

SOP na kasi ng mga bus/trucks/trailers drivers yan..
na kapag nakabangga sila eh tuluyan na nila para mas makatipid sila sa perang magagastos nila.. mga siraulo eh..

[tiquico]

Dirty little secret nga sa bus industry yan. Kaya takot ako sa bus dumikit eh. Bigla na lang magswe-swerve. Kanina lang sa EDSA MRT Boni northbound, bigla na lang nagtraffic kasi may bus na nagsasakay ng mga pasahero at kinuha yung third lane from the right. Sabay swerve ng pagkatulis tulis. Tsk.tsk.tsk.

[simplicity]

my tito used to drive for philippine rabbit decades ago... at nakabangga na siya, at IIRC,
tinuluyan niya. dahil yun nga daw kasi ang instructions ng mga boss.

matagal ng ganito ang patakaran ng mga bus operators.
eh di maglagay ang mga NBI o pulis ng isang poser na driver at i-record lahat ng mapapagusapan nila ng mga boss... or better yet, taga media ang gumawa nito
para mai-kalat agad. kung pulis o nbi malamang mabayaran lang yan eh...

[_Qwerty_]

totoo ba yun?? 50T lang binabayad nang mga yan pag nakapatay?? diba dapat ni co consider yung age and possible income nung napatay nila?

[innoBOB[09JmtG]]

parang hitler a. tsk tsk.

sana kasi tutukan ung pag develop ng mga LRTs at MRTs, at tanggalin na ung mga bus sa daan, pamprobinsiya na lang siguro mga bus.

tapos ung mga boss na naguutos nang mga ganun, hay! ma boy-in-striped-pajamas sana kayo!

[james00112233]

matagal ng ganito ang patakaran ng mga bus operators.
eh di maglagay ang mga NBI o pulis ng isang poser na driver at i-record lahat ng mapapagusapan nila ng mga boss... or better yet, taga media ang gumawa nito
para mai-kalat agad. kung pulis o nbi malamang mabayaran lang yan eh...

+1000 ako...
kapag nakahawak ng malaking pera ang mga yan eh baka biglang tumahimik. mas may tiwala pa ako sa media.

[innoBOB[09JmtG]]

mas may tiwala ako sa huling araw ang pang wakas na paghahatol sa atin. tsk tsk.

[Altis6453]

I approve of this.

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Who's going to monitor the speeds of these buses? DOTC? MMDA? Local government flunkies? Who's going to enforce them? What about places where it's harder for GPS devices to get a lock? Still a lot of questions unanswered.

In the end, the ultimate solution to these problems is to drive these PUV imbeciles out of business by offering a true-blue, safer, more comfortable public transportation system. They need to think out of the box. (Adding more LRT/MRT do not count.) Anything else is just a stop-gap measure.

I'll adopt a more draconian penalty for erring drivers...castration after three traffic violations. Tignan ko lang kung hindi mabawasan ng tuluyan ang mga !*#%$ na ýan.

[badsekktor]

I'll adopt a more draconian penalty for erring drivers...castration after three traffic violations. Tignan ko lang kung hindi mabawasan ng tuluyan ang mga !*#%$ na ýan.

I agree!

a shocking news article:



Full text of the article:

http://www.philstar.com/ArticlePrint...ticleId=520203

I wish they would disclose the name of the bus company.....

[jave]

I'll adopt a more draconian penalty for erring drivers...castration after three traffic violations. Tignan ko lang kung hindi mabawasan ng tuluyan ang mga !*#%$ na ýan.

I want this. Because it solves two problems at once. On one hand, you get more disciplined drivers and on the other, you curb the level of overpopulation by cutting off the chances of morons to procreate and mess up the gene pool with their idiocy.

Brilliant!

[innoBOB[09JmtG]]

sana ma boy-in-striped-pajamas ung mga boss nila. di din naman driver lang may kasalanan, pati mga boss

[MaxAJ]

I'll adopt a more draconian penalty for erring drivers...castration after three traffic violations. Tignan ko lang kung hindi mabawasan ng tuluyan ang mga !*#%$ na ýan.

I agree.. putolan na yan. para hinde umangas

[simplicity]

P e r f e c t !

[oj88]

^ But what happens if you run out of err... stuff to cut? Cause I'm sure they're so small to start with, for them to overcompensate. :D

[Altis6453]

^ But what happens if you run out of err... stuff to cut? Cause I'm sure they're so small to start with, for them to overcompensate. :D

Then we can lop off their fingers one by one. If that runs out, go for their toes until nothin's left.

[Rev!t]

^ But what happens if you run out of err... stuff to cut? Cause I'm sure they're so small to start with, for them to overcompensate. :D

if that's the case, then don't cut..just prune it at certain 'length', say increments of 1/2"-1" per accident.

[KERSMcRae]

Sa probinsya namin to. Narinig ko lang sa DZMM (radiotime). Search ko sa net, eto ang nakapost sa Philstar. May napugutan pa daw, not sure of it, hindi naman naisulat dito...

http://www.philstar.com/ArticlePrint...ticleId=555849

12 dead as bus rams into acacia tree
By Artemio Dumlao (The Philippine Star) Updated March 08, 2010 12:00 AM

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Twelve residents of Sta. Rosa, Laguna on their way home after holding a visita iglesia or church tour in Baguio City were killed and 25 others were injured in a vehicular mishap along the Marcos Highway in La Union before dawn yesterday.
Paeng Valencia, chief of the rescue group 911-On-Call, said eight of the pilgrims died on the spot when the PGM Love Bus unit they were riding lost its brakes and rammed into an acacia tree in Barangay Palina, Pugo town. The rest died in the hospital.
Ten of the victims were identified as Warlito Sayoco, Luiza Gasapos, Martin Lydia, Ines Bañes, Pamela Tanya Africa, Eleuteria Reyes, Liberia Reyes, Mikhael Reyes, Mercedita Reyes, and Isabelita Reyes.
Valencia said the bus had over 40 passengers, including children.
The bus driver, Silvestre Binay, suffered injuries and was brought to the La Union Medical Center in Agoo town.
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board Chairman Alberto Suansing said he would verify if PGM Love Bus has a franchise from his agency and if it does, this would be suspended for 30 days pending an investigation. – With Jun Elias and Renir Padua

edit: Tourist bus yata to.

[Ma^ride]

I read this news also. It was a very tragic news about what happened to those passengers. To those who lost their love ones.. Nakikiramay kami...