ACCIDENTS OCCUR DUE TO UNTRAINED TRAFFIC AIDES?
MAS YAHYA
ILIGAN
CITY, September 1 – A traffic accident involving three vehicles ensued Monday
morning in one of th
The
accident involved a company mini-truck, a passenger jeepney and a KIA HUV.
A passenger
of the jeepney who preferred unidentified said he saw the company mini-truck colored maroon hurriedly crossed the crossing of General Aguinaldo and Lluch streets.
“But as the
truck driver was looking at the left,” said the passenger, “he (the driver) did not
notice the HUV colored red passing through Aguinaldo and thus bumped the left side of the HUV
passenger’s seat.”
The passenger said the HUV lost control and hit the left side of the jeepney plying Palao-Bacayo routes.
The crossing lanes have no traffic light and accidents may be prone. Traffic enforcers or aides are assigned to man the rotonda.regularly.
But sources said traffic enforcers were lax
or not active in manning the crossing.
Earlier,
Ranao Star reported in a banner story that untrained traffic aides were manning
Iligan key streets.
The report
quoted City Traffic Management Officer Lamberto A. Jungao as admitting in one
of the Sangguniang Panlungsod sessions that some posts usually manned by
regular traffic personnel were assigned to new recruit-casuals who have not yet
been trained on the job.
Jungao
revealed that at the instance of what he believes is the Acting City
Administrator Atty. Dexter Sumaoy, there was a reassignment of traffic aides in
different post throughout the City.
In view of
the situation, the SP passed a resolution requesting the city mayor to have new
traffic aides undergo the one-month training prescribed by the Traffic Code of
Iligan before being deployed to strategic posts in the city streets. MNY
