pedestrian safety

VW road safety exhibit is at Market Market July 25-26

Volkswagen Philippines is continuing its effort to educate the public on road safety this weekend, July 25 and 26, 2015 at Market Market Mall in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. VW aims to impart to motorists the importance…

Man runs over, kills daughter while parking car

SANDAKAN, Malaysia—A man reparking his vehicle at a relative’s house, where the family had come on an Hari Raya Aidilfitri visit Friday night, accidentally ran over and killed his three-year-old daughter. Mutia Noraini Ayup died of severe…

‘Call center employee’ hit by speeding van on Ayala Avenue

A woman believed to be a call center employee was hurt when she was hit by a speeding passenger van along Ayala Avenue, Makati City, early Wednesday morning. The victim, in her mid-20s to early 30s, was…

BGC ralliers demand safer streets

Australian national Jacinta Coote recalled how she raged inside when she saw the footage of the May 12 accident at a crossing in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in which two “careless” motorists nearly killed her and the…

‘Let’s avoid becoming an MMDA statistic’

When Australian expatriate Jacinta Coote crossed the road at a pedestrian crossing in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) on May 12 to go buy bananas for her daughter, she never got them. Jacinta was nearly killed when two…

A ‘wild, wild East’ for foreigners crossing PH streets

  (Conclusion)   AMIDST the steadily increasing influx of foreign visitors to the Philippines (according to Department of Tourism figures, there were already 1,391,836 tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2015, up from 1,309,872 from the…