The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has issued resolutions against two car drivers involved in separate traffic incidents in Paranaque City that caused injuries to two persons and the death of a three-year-old child.
The LTO’s Intelligence and Investigation Division, in collaboration with the agency’s National Capital Region-West, ruled after the investigations that the two drivers, Raymond Zapirain and Rodolfo Cudiamat, were both liable for reckless driving and improper person to operate motor vehicles.
They drivers were fined P2,000 each for the reckless driving infraction.
The resolutions also revoked the driver’s licenses of Zapirain and Cudiamat who were also permanently disqualified from securing a driver’s license and driving a motor vehicle.
Both drivers were ordered to turn over their licenses to the LTO NCR-West Traffic Adjudication Section.
Zapirain is the registered owner and driver of the Mitsubishi Pajero van (UXO-295) that sideswiped and seriously injured 63-year-old street sweeper Doreen Bacus on Sept. 24 along Elizalde Avenue corner Aguirre Avenue, Barangay BF Homes, Parañaque City.
Cudiamat was the driver of a motor vehicle (NCV-4752) registered in the name of Visitacion Hugo.
The vehicle was involved in a hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of a child and caused injuries to her companion.
The two children were walking along Bodoni Street corner Extra Street, 4th Estate, Barangay San Antonio on Sept. 20 when the road mishap happened.
“Being a long-time advocate of road safety,” LTO chief Teofilo Guadiz III lauded the issuance of the resolution, saying that the LTO is serious in its campaign to help get rid of drivers who continue to ignore traffic laws and believe that they could get away with violations that sometimes could lead to the loss of lives.
“Our roads have no room for these types of ill-disciplined drivers who continue to ignore our traffic laws, even to the point of feigning innocence that what happened was an accident,” he said.