Drivers of public utility buses and jeepneys racing towards one another to argue over passengers will quickly be sentenced to jail and a positive underneath a invoice handed by the Home of representatives. Invoice 8916, which the Home authorized at second studying, bans unlawful drag racing. Ultimate third studying approval is anticipated subsequent week. Deputy Majority Chief and Quezon Metropolis Consultant Treasured Hipolito Castelo, writer of the invoice, says it’s not unusual to see PUV drivers, particularly these in Metro Manila, “preventing towards one another in a contest to choose up passengers ”. “This atrocious follow resulted within the mindless and utterly preventable deaths of various PUV riders and spectators,” she stated. She stated drag racing “has no place in our society and a legislation is required to ban it.” She added that the proposed drag racing ban would cowl “all automobiles, whether or not public or personal.” Invoice Castelo defines drag racing as “a highway race involving two or extra automobiles pushed aspect by aspect for a specified distance at accelerated speeds for the aim of outdoing themselves, or the usage of one car on a standard path for the aim of figuring out the relative speeds or acceleration energy of automobiles. ”

The invoice offers that unlawful drag racing is “a highway race not sanctioned or licensed by authorities authorities.” It additionally features a race between public utility automobiles passing one another at random for the aim of catching up with one passenger earlier than one other or for the only real objective of outrunning one other at speeds exceeding the authorized pace restrict of a sure highway. . “The ban on drag racing would cowl” any kind of motorized or electrical car, which makes use of a highway, road or freeway for the transport of individuals or items “, together with” four-wheeled, three-wheeled automobiles. wheels and two-wheelers. “Heavy gear and agricultural equipment are usually not lined. The ban would additionally apply to pull racing on a personal highway, until licensed by the related native authorities unit The proposed penalties are imprisonment for one yr, or a positive of P 300,000 to P 500,000, or each on the discretion of the court docket. different crimes ensuing from drag racing The offender’s driver’s license could be suspended for six months A second offense would outcome within the offender being completely barred from being issued a driver’s license.