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Senator calls for immediate passage of Road Rage Law

Following a traffic altercation in Quezon City last week that, according to ABS-CBNNews.com, left a tricycle driver and his 12-year-old passenger with gunshot wounds, Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is calling on his colleagues to pass Senate Bill 2923, otherwise known as the Road Rage Law, which he filed in July 2011.

"The driver who fired the shots sped away," said Marcos. "This is not the first time we hear of such incident, and it won't be the last. The bill that I filed, Senate Bill No. 2923, also known as the Road Rage Law, aims to curb the occurrences of senseless violence on Philippine roads, and to instill discipline, control and restraint among road users. More and more countries and states are recognizing this pernicious behavior on the road as alarming and having caused injury and deaths to millions over the years."

According to the lawmaker, the bill is currently pending for consideration in the Senate Committee on Public Order. If passed into law, the measure seeks to subject offenders to administrative proceedings by the Land Transportation Office, which would result in either the cancellation of their driver's license or a lifetime prohibition and disqualification from the issuance of a driver's license. If physical injuries, damage to property, malicious mischief, or threats on the occasion of road rage are committed with the use of a deadly weapon, the offender shall be punished "with the penalty next higher in degree." If the road-rage incident resulted in the death of the victim, the penalty for the offender shall be reclusion perpetua.

"We hope to pass the bill the soonest so that such incidents can be minimized and our streets can be made safer after all," added Marcos. "We ask all our motorists to observe courtesy among each other and keep heads cool. Violence due to aggressive driving is senseless and can be avoided."

Incidentally, in filing the bill, Marcos mentioned TopGear.com.ph's article, "Five most alarming road-rage cases in the Philippines," which was posted on this website in November 2009.

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  • nestortinam 11 months ago
     
    dapat both parties should have penalties. They must study what cause the road rage- in my opinion.
       
    • mindkinetic 11 months ago
       
      in my opinion the person who provoked should be penalized . Gun owners should be more responsible.
         
    • vonschnipp 11 months ago
       
      In Singapore both parties will be punished (harshly) for disturbing the peace, so they almost always come to an amiable settlement without involving the police. Much better than punishing only one side when the other side clearly provoked it.
         
  • mts 11 months ago
     
    Walang hiya naman kasi talaga in general ang mga tricycle, taxi, jeepney, and bus drivers. May na-miss ba ako? ah, at yung mga batang mapusok pa - so better guide your children.. :) Its like bullying in school, talagang mapapalaban ka kahit gaano ka ka-cool. Sino kaya ang natutuwa sa mga yan? Ultimo pasahero naiinis eh. Dapat siguro, yung bill should aim those with no right manners on the road. With regard to the incident, I think yung tricycle driver talaga ang may kasalanan kung bakit siya nabaril. I don't like road rage, but I don't pity him.
       
    • mindkinetic 11 months ago
       
      we do understand the lack of road courtesy by majority if not all public vehicles , but gunning down someone due to a simple road altercation is too much, guns in my opinion is neccesary now adays so as to protect yourself from unwanted assault. it should therefore only be made used when the intention is to protect life and property.
         
      • ChairmanPineapple 11 months ago
         
        oo nga naman kapag babarilin natin yun mga tao eh baka mag pile up sa kalye yun mga dead bodies kasi sa dami nilang mga bastos na jeepney drivers hehehe!
           
  • mts 11 months ago
     
    Di ba dapat gawin legal ang shoot to kill sa mga public drivers with no manners? Hahaha joke.. (half meant)
       
    • jabroni 11 months ago
       
      Masyado ka naman atang brutal, nasa pinas tyo at wala sa ibang bansa na maganda ang transportasyon kaya dapat pasensyoso tayo sa traffic at sa mga kapwa natin motorista. Peace
         
    • ChairmanPineapple 11 months ago
       
      sa totoo lang dapat nga i-shoot to kill ang mga bastos na jeepney drivers, saksakan ng bastos at walang modo, walang courtesy, how can you give proper respect to some people who dont even know what respect is, biro mo titigil sa gitna ng kalye at ewan ko ba kung kinakamot yun ulo niya or makikipag kuwentuhan sa katabing jeepney o bibili sa sari sari store kasi nauuhaw, eh di ba niya naisip na may mga taong nagmamadali na makapag hanap buhay sa likuran niya, sarap barilin talaga kaso siyempre maximum tolerance
         
    • DePendot 11 months ago
       
      tomo. ilang milyon ba ang mga pinoy? di naman siguro masama bawasan ng ilang libong bobo.
         
    • roadrage 11 months ago
       
      Sama na natin tirahin (legally) mga mayayabang na driver ng dark-shaded at tilted plates! Isunod natin yung mga may signal light na iba ang kulay!
         
  • dohc_ivtec 11 months ago
     
    May nakasabay ako sa edsa white expedition with plate number 8 front and rear. Kaskasero kung mag drive. Nakakainis lng makita na sa congressman ang sasakyan tapos the way he drives parang sa kanya ung daan. Swerving from outer to inner lane tapos tutuk sa sasakyan then overtake. Share ko lng.
       
  • JoHunter 11 months ago
     
    So ignorant. Gumagawa sila ng bagong classification for the same kind of crime with heavier penalties without even alleviating bad road conditions. So ang ibig bang sabihin ng walang alam na senador na 'to ay equally heinous ang pre-meditated murder at crime of passion caused by st*p*d/crazy drivers? It doesn't make sense.

    But then again, politicians' thinking have never made sense. At all.
       
  • jabroni 11 months ago
     
    I wonder where is Jason Ivler now and what happened to his case... Mukhang tinago na naman ng nanay nyang psychotic?
       
  • ChairmanPineapple 11 months ago
     
    Mr Senator, bago niyo ipasa ang road rage law, sana tutukan mo rin yun mga nuissance sa kalye, those moving objects which should not be even on our roads but still are running in our roads and making ruckuss and nuissance to us motorist, example: Pedicap, kuliglig, tricycle --> mayayabang na sa kalye at storbo pa sa kalsada, kahit mag maximum tolerance ka eh kung nang aasar sa kalye eh talagang mauubos pasensya mo, might as well put prozac in our waters so that we all will be floating and feel like there is nothing to worry about in life instead.

    Fix our roads! Clean our roads of nuissance! Remove ridiculous laws that make motorist driving inconvinience then you can pass this road rage law!
       
  • gdls11 11 months ago
     
    i think bongbong doesnt drive his own car, this law hopes to regulate only valid car owners and does not regulate public utility drivers like tricycles, taxis, jeepneys and buses which are often causes of traffics. I keep feeling the law is only for the middle class. Just exiting my middle class village in QC, i still see jeepneys and tricycles not using headlights at night and plying lawlessly along the road, is there a law to protect us middle class? only a few people have guns, im not saying the tricycle driver and passenger deserved to be shot but seriously who hasnt encountered a lawless tricycle driver?
       
  • DePendot 11 months ago
     
    kung walang mga bobo walang Road Rage. Ano ba naman yung mag stick sa isang lane, huminto sa pula. E wala e puro singit puro epal.

    Sana i legalize na lang pag baril sa mga bobong driver. Joke!
       
  • roadrage 11 months ago
     
    bongbong, this is funny... these are usual minor problem, i mean they can happen or actually happening in all places in the world.. let us be realistic and face more serious problems... foreign investments losing confidence(hey bongbong lam mo ba, Ford plant ceasing operation?), power crisis(dagdagan mo na lang kaya windmill investment mo sa ilocos, sayo naman yun eh), natural disaster, territorial disputes, etc... pumapapel p kasi eh!
       
    • DePendot 11 months ago
       
      ayan ginalit mo si roadrage. hehe.
         
  • zenemijokyn 11 months ago
     
    They should first get to the root cause. How do drivers get a license nowadays? Maraming drivers dyan na pag may pangbayad sa fixer, automatic meron na. So LTO muna dapat ang asikasuhin bago ang mga bagong batas.
       
  • 17Sphynx17 11 months ago
     
    Why a need for a new law?

    If the altercation resulted in physical injury, wouldn't it already fall under battery or assault causing physical injuries?

    If a death resulted in the altercation, then it is already murder. Right?

    It shouldn't even be a new law to begin with if he only wants suspension of license or complete and full revocation of being given a license as this can be done by a regulation/ordinance by LTO alone as they are the only agency handling driver's license in the whole nation.

    Anyway, I keep maximum tolerance as well when driving and just stay alert to the best of my abilities which is impossible to do 100% of the time. But I have to agree with some here that these tricycles, pedicabs, kuligligs need to get their act together or say goodbye to this type of service as they are more of a nuisance than a solution to the transportation conundrum.

    Keep in mind these types of vehicle complain that they cannot earn enough to sustain that type of business if they do not resort to overloading, which is clearly disregarding the safety of their passengers. So in reality, it was never a viable business or solution to begin with.

    Also, the said vehicles were never meant to haul people or stuff the way they use them so this is an inefficient mode of transportation as well as use of natural resource. Phase them out. Other nations don't have this similar type of transport with the exception of Thailand's tuk-tok (which I think is also dwindling in size).

    Just my two cents.

       
  • JoHunter 11 months ago
     
    Does anyone wonder kung ito bang mga politikong ume-epal sa transportation problems kahit wala silang kaalam-alam sa subject ay nagbabasa ng mga feedback dito?
       
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