7 nastiest
attitude of Filipino vehicle Drivers on
the road
(As observed
by the writer)
1.
No
respect to pedestrians: If you are a pedestrian on the road in the
Philippines, be sure to observe strictly the stop look and listen, plus be sure
to be alert always, or else you might lost limb or worst life because most of
the drivers will not yield nor stop for you if you are walking on designated pedestrian
crossings. Most accident happens in designated and marked pedestrian crossing,
especially in schools without traffic officer supervising the traffic. Drivers
even blow their horn and show dirty fingers and utter bad words to pedestrians.
This disrespect to pedestrians who are passing in pedestrian crossing only
indicates that a driver does not truly understand the purpose of pedestrian
crossing. We all know that road crossings are designated for pedestrians, and
vehicle should or must fully stop when a pedestrian is crossing and yield to
pedestrians who are about to walk. There are early warnings and signs available
along side of the roads but most of drivers in the Philippines tend to ignore
this.
2.
No
road courtesy: This is one of the reasons why several road rage
results to serious confrontation and death. Reports show that if only drivers
operating vehicle have road courtesy on the road, this tragic useless injuries
and deaths will never happen. It can be observed that majority of those involve
in this serious road rages that resulted to injuries or death are wealthy and
educated personalities of the Philippine society. Gun owners who are driving
vehicle are the common perpetrators of this worst road rage. This does not
exempt weather the gun they owned is legally registered or not registered.
3.
No proper
training: The laxity of obtaining Philippines drivers license is one
of the reasons why person who have no proper trainings are operating vehicles
on the roads. LTO (land transportation office) is the agency concern to
regulate the issuance of drivers license is said to have implementing changes
to address problems such as this but result of this measures are not seen or
observed to vehicle operator in the road. Some traffic enforcers are only keen
in apprehending car drivers who violates selective violations like no parking,
wrong way, jeepny/taxi drivers in no loading and unloading area but not once I
have observe that a driver who ignore pedestrian crossing sign is apprehended.
4.
Speeding
in congested area: It is easy for a driver operating vehicle to
evade apprehension in violating the speed limit because traffic enforcer does
not have any instrument to support allegation that the drivers is really
speeding. The least traffic enforcers do is to response only when accidents
happen, when vehicles collided or a pedestrian is injured due to speeding. To
justify speeding in this case depends on the ingenuity of traffic investigator,
skills to investigate they developed from years of experiencing such violation
but in the expense of damage to property, injuries and worst death.
5.
Texting/Calling
while driving: Using mobile phone while driving a vehicle is the
rising cause of accident in the roads today. The convenience of using mobile
phone is tantamount to the dangers it can cause if not use properly especially
while driving. In most cases, a driver using phone while driving con not be
apprehended because the windows are darkly tainted.
6.
Driving
under Influence of alcohol: Filipinos are said to be happy go lucky
type, but sometimes this attribute causes accidents in the road. News media
frequently report accidents related to driving under the influence of alcohol
but there are many drivers choose to ignore this and continue to drive even
they are under the influence of alcohol and end-up meeting accident along the
road.
7.
Car that run is ok: Philippines
is a third world country and most of their old mechanical tools are still in
use today like cars even if this are no longer road worthy. Drivers of this
type of cars does not understand the danger it imposes to their selves and to
those in the road when accident occurs because of this dilapidated and outdated
cars still being used. Not all old cars are dilapidated and outdated if these
cars are rehabilitated restore to meet the standards of road safety. Others
tend to ignore safety and choose practicality as a reason to operate old
dilapidated cars in highways.
This observation is not to offend
anybody but this is to help in opening the consciousness of Filipino drivers
who are operating vehicle on the road.
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