Editorial: Ban motorcycles from highways?

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Is it high time to ban motorcycles from plying national highways and other major thoroughfares?

Her death came in a flash. Public school teacher Charisma Servado could have received flowers and love from her students had she lived for another day.

Servado was riding on the motorcycle driven by her husband, who survived the road accident along the highway in Barangay Tungkil, Minglanilla. Lazarte had just gotten off work when he drove the motorcycle owned by his father fast until he hit the Servado couple’s motorcycle. The teacher had worn her helmet at the time, but it did not save her from her untimely death.

A World Health Organization report on road traffic injuries released on June 20, 2022 stated that more than half of the approximately 1.3 million people who die each year in road traffic crashes are vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. If the government banned motorcycles from national highways, it would surely be met with protests because there is no existing law that bans them. There are laws that regulate motorcycle use and put in place safety measures such as mandatory helmet use, a limit on riders and prohibiting motorcycle-for-hire public transport. Despite the existence of these laws, their enforcement is lacking and violators are aplenty.

 

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