We’ve given you all kinds of year-end roundups here on Top Gear Philippines. You’ve read about the biggest car and bike launches and the most popular car reviews and whatnot. But this time let’s skip all the feel-good numbers and shift our focus to an equally important but significantly less pleasing year-in report from the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
The agency just shared some figures online, one of which included the number of revoked driver’s licenses in 2024. Can you take a guess? We’ll give you a paragraph break’s worth of time.
Okay, ready? It’s 984. That might not seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things, but that’s an alarming number considering you’d have to have done something bad for your license to be revoked.
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Just to give you an idea, these revoked licenses are cases similar to the viral incidents we see every now and then, like the road-rage episode from the gun-toting motorist a while back. Not everything makes it to the headlines, but it appears a lot of severe cases still happen on a daily basis.
To make the numbers more easy to digest, look at it this way: Last year, nearly three licenses were revoked in a day. That includes weekends and holidays. That’s a lot.
There were 736 cases involving drunk driving, while 130 cases involved licenses that were acquired in ‘questionable ways’ and in violation of Republic Act No. 4136. Another 94 cases included violations such as duplicate licenses, falsification of documents, and cheating during examinations. As for the viral videos on social media as well as other complaints brought forward to the LTO, there were 24 cases.
“We hope that this year, there will be no minimal or even zero administrative cases with driver’s license revocation as a penalty because we in the LTO want all our motorists to be responsible and disciplined while using our roads,” said LTO chief Atty. Vigor Mendoza II. “But let this also serve as a warning that your LTO will not hesitate to suspend and revoke as many driver’s licenses if it would lead to the safety of all road users. Always remember that the driver's license we issue is a privilege, kaya magtulungan po tayo.”
