Motorcycles topped the list of vehicles involved in accidents with the highest number of deaths and injuries last year, according to records of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Based on the recently released data gathered by…
BANGKOK — A train smashed into a double-decker bus carrying Thai tourists at an unguarded railway crossing in central Thailand on Sunday, with local media reporting that three people were killed and more than two dozen injured.…
AMPOSTA, Spain — Thirteen people were killed and 44 injured Sunday when a bus carrying foreign exchange students crashed in northeastern Spain, local authorities said. All the dead were female, according to a regional government source who requested anonymity.…
The Pokemon company’s creative design director Eric Medalle died last Sunday (Monday Manila time) after a tree fell on his car during a storm in Seattle. Citing a report from the digital media website, Mashable.com, Medalle was taking…
THERE IS an official price for human life in the Philippines: P50,000 per person. The amount of P50,000 can buy you a living room set, a secondhand Gucci women’s bag, or a pair of Prada men’s shoes…
ILOILO CITY — Four persons died after the motorcycle which they boarded rammed into a ten-wheeler truck in Barangay Calaigang in San Rafael town about 4:20 a.m. on Sunday. Motorcycle driver Eduardo Acutan and passengers Gilbert Cerbasa,…
Road accidents involving motorcycles posted the highest number of fatalities in 2015. A total of 20,283 motorcycles were involved in road accidents in the National Capital Region last year, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. Of…
Citing the success of the “Bayanihan sa Daan” road-sharing event held on Roxas Boulevard last month, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will do a repeat on Sunday, this time on Commonwealth Avenue. The agency on Thursday…
Waze, the Israeli-developed driving app now owned by Google, found itself linked to controversy Tuesday after two Israeli soldiers who were using the app mistakenly entered a Palestinian refugee camp, sparking bloody clashes. READ: Traffic app Waze…
ACCORDING to the latest Road Crash Statistics Report of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s Metro Manila Accident Recording and Analysis System, there were 95,615 road accidents in the National Capital Region in 2015. Of this figure, 519…