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TRANSPORTATION
LAWS REGARDING THE SAFETY OF PASSENGERS It is important to drive safely, not only for yourself but for your passengers and other drivers. Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your passengers remain safe on the road.
How to ensure you and your passengers remain
safe Always stick to the speed limit; road safety laws are there to protect you and your passengers. Drivers are more likely to be injured in a collision when a vehicle is travelling fast as speed is at the core of most road safety problems.
Speed A few tips: ◦ Regularly check your speedometer as you drive. ◦ Know the limits – take notice of signs. ◦ Assume lamp posts mean 30mph. ◦ Remember speed limits are a maximum and not a target. Wearing a seatbelt will keep passengers travelling in a car secure and prevent them being thrown through the windscreen during a crash.
Seatbelt Never drink and drive, as drinking impairs your judgement and slows your reaction time. It can also cause blurred vision and loss of consciousness.
Drink Driving Mobile phones: using your phone whilst driving will distract you and take eyes off the road. It is important to put your phone on silent or switch it off unless you're using a hands free kit. Even then, we advise not to take or make ANY phone calls in case you become distracted. Children and pets: children and pets can be potential distraction; it is important they are strapped in at all times with secured seatbelts and that pets are contained in a carrier. Children who are tall enough to wear a seatbelt should always sit in the back of the car. Loud music: loud music can distract you from the road and may mask other sounds you need to be Avoid aware of.Distractions Tailgating is a primary reason for rear end crashes. It is important to keep at least a three second distance between you and the car in front – a little bit of patience can go a long way!
Don’t Tailgate Regularly check your car’s lights, tyre pressures, brakes, water, screenwash and oil levels. Make sure you always have a first aid kit in the car and have sufficient breakdown cover and insurance to protect you if you are ever involved in an incident.
Be Prepared TRAFFIC LAWS ABOUT SAFETY FROM REPUBLIC ACT No. 4136 Title of Act. - This Act shall be known as the "Land Transportation and Traffic Code.“
Scope of Act. - The provisions of this Act
shall control, as far as they apply, the registration and operation of motor vehicles and the licensing of owners, dealers, conductors, drivers, and similar matters.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 4136
Section 35. Restriction as to speed. - ◦ Any person driving a motor vehicle on a highway shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed, not greater nor less than is reasonable and proper, having due regard for the traffic, the width of the highway, and of any other condition then and there existing; and no person shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway at such a speed as to endanger the life, limb and property of any person, nor at a speed greater than will permit him to bring the vehicle to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead.
CHAPTER IV – ARTICLE 1 Passengers Motor trucks and MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SPEEDS Cars and buses Motorcycle 1. On open country roads, with no 80 km. per hour 50 km. per hour "blinds corners" not closely bordered by habitations.
2. On "through streets" or boulevards, 40 km. per hour 30 km. per hour
clear of traffic, with no " blind corners," when so designated.
3. On city and municipal streets, with 30 km. per hour 30 km. per hour light traffic, when not designated "through streets".
4. Through crowded streets, 20 km. per hour 20 km. per hour
approaching intersections at "blind corners," passing school zones, passing other vehicles which are stationery, or for similar dangerous circumstances. Section 36. Speed limits uniform throughout the Philippines. - No provincial, city or municipal authority shall enact or enforce any ordinance or resolution specifying maximum allowable speeds other than those provided in this Act. Section 37. Driving on right side of highway. - Unless a different course of action is required in the interest of the safety and the security of life, person or property, or because of unreasonable difficulty of operation in compliance herewith, every person operating a motor vehicle or an animal-drawn vehicle on a highway shall pass to the right when meeting persons or vehicles coming toward him, and to the left when overtaking persons or vehicles going the same direction, and when turning to the left in going from one highway to another, every vehicle shall be conducted to the right of the center of the intersection of the highway. CHAPTER IV – ARTICLE 1 Section 38. Classification of highways. - Public highways shall be properly classified for traffic purposes by the provincial board, municipal board or city council having jurisdiction over them, and said provincial board, municipal board or city council shall provide appropriate signs therefor, subject to the approval of the Commissioner. It shall be the duty of every provincial, city and municipal secretary to certify to the Commissioner the names, locations, and limits of all "through streets" designated as such by the provincial board, municipal board or council.
CHAPTER IV – ARTICLE 1 Section 39. Overtaking a vehicle. - The driver of any motor vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass at a safe distance to the left thereof, and shall not again drive to the right side of the highway until safety clear of such overtaken vehicle except that on a highway, within a business or residential district, having two or more lanes for the movement of traffic in one direction, the driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle on the right. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a driver overtaking and passing, upon the right, another vehicle which is making or about to make a left turn.
Section 40. Driver to give way to overtaking vehicle. - The driver of a
vehicle about to be overtaken and passed by another vehicle approaching from the rear shall give way to the overtaking vehicle on suitable and audible signal being given by the driver of the overtaking vehicle, and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle. CHAPTER IV – ARTICLE 2 Section 41. Restrictions on overtaking and passing. ◦ The driver of a vehicle shall not drive to the left side of the center line of a highway in overtaking or passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction, unless such left side is clearly visible, and is free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit such overtaking or passing to be made in safety.
