Around P5 million worth of property was destroyed in a roadside fire that started from a bus in Quezon City Thursday night. A Fermina Express bus (TXK 880) had already unloaded passengers after stalling due to engine…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A government-owned truck in Moalboal town, carrying 30 to 40 people, fell into a 7-meter-deep ravine in Barangay (village) Lawaan, Alcantara, some 85 kilometers southwest of this city at around noon Thursday. Police…
Whenever we’re behind the wheel, we like to think that we’re in full control. Whether we’re tootling to the grocery or barreling down the highway, we seldom consider that everything could go haywire in a fraction of…
The government imposed the “heaviest penalty” and cancelled the franchise of a 20-year-old bus company over the Dec. 16, 2013, highway accident that killed 21 people and injured 24 others in Taguig City. But while the order…
MANILA, Philippines – The Land Transportation and Franchising Board said Tuesday morning that it was a “first” for the agency, since its establishment in 1987, to revoke the franchise of a bus operator covering its entire units.…
MANILA, Philippines—The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Tuesday cancelled the franchise of the Don Mariano Bus Transit after it was found guilty of several violations. On Dec. 16, 2013, a bus of the Don…
With the suspension of the license of Don Mariano Transit expiring on January 16, 2014, the Automobile Association Philippines is pressing for the cancellation of the bus company’s franchise. A Don Mariano bus fell off the Skyway…
MANILA, Philippines—The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has issued a preventive suspension order on all 18 units of the MGP Trans bus company after one of its buses figured in a fatal accident last November.…
A taxi driver from Caloocan City was recently arrested for abandoning a pedestrian who was hit by his cab last week in Quezon City, police said Friday. Insp. Elmer Monsalve, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s…
Quezon City’s “killer highway” claimed another life Wednesday morning, this time that of a 73-year-old motorist who lost control of his car till it crashed into four other vehicles on the opposite lane. A taxi driver and…
