WHAT is happening to our Land Transportation Office in the province?
Are the employees of the said office not aware of an almost daily or weekly vehicular accidents happening in the province?
If the answers to the foregoing questions are in the affirmative, then it is but proper for Short Cuts to request the Office of the Provincial Fiscal or the Offices of the Chiefs of Police in the different local governments units in the province to inform LTO of these facts so as to avert more events to occur in the future.
It is indeed a fact that vehicular accidents seem to be the order of the day for the last eight months in this province.
In most cases, the accident involves a tricycle against a four-wheel vehicle or a tricycle against another tricycle.
Short Cuts is always an eyewitness to these events. He frequents the Tagbilaran to Carmen route via the Balilihan-Makapiko bridge at Batuan and vice-versa. Almost daily, he takes the same route.
Last Thursday (June 15) Short Cuts witnessed a tricycle with a passenger having been thrown out to a cliff of around six meters deep after having bumped with a four-wheel vehicle.
With God’s blessing the accident saved both the tricycle driver and passenger but with profuse bleeding.
If this Tagbilaran to Carmen route experiences such tragic events, how about the other barangay, provincial, and national roads in the province? Are they free of the same mess?
Short Cuts thinks otherwise. It is because of his yesterday afternoon’s trip to LGU Jagna from LGU Carmen via LGU Sierra Bullones. When Short Cuts’ vehicle was already in Barangay Mayana of LGU Jagna, the vehicle almost hit a traveling tricycle from the opposite direction.
Why?
While Short Cuts’ vehicle was negotiating a blind curve, a tricycle suddenly appeared from the opposite direction.
And this same tricycle has already violated traffic rule.
Why?
This tricycle already used almost three meters of the road from its center while negotiating the blind curve. This almost three-meter distance is already supposed to be the rightful road path of Short Cuts’ vehicle.
Do you know the reaction of the tricycle driver after the incident?
To Short Cuts’ shock, the tricycle driver just turned his back and looked at Short Cuts’ vehicle and laughed at the aborted accident.
The foregoing narration is a matter worthy to be studied by our LTO officials with the following query in mind. Are driving licenses issued to persons without having undergone lessons on traffic rules and regulations?
However, Short Cuts is forcing this issue. May a regulation be imposed on vehicle dealers not to sell vehicles to non-driving license holders?
These are issues that must meet the scrutinizing eyes and minds of our officials in government.
