Another, newer, video has been going viral online of a public utility bus (PUB) recklessly speeding through the EDSA Busway and eventually hitting a concrete barrier. The barrier then hit the car from which the dashboard camera footage was recorded from. As per the post made by Camz Wong, the driver of the passenger car, Wong was driving on the lane adjacent to the Busway when the incident happened. The post also shows the damage on the left front side of the passenger car.

Details captured by the dashcam footage shows that the bus is of Roval Transport with plate number NDQ 2621. The incident has reached the office of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the agency is strongly denouncing the operator and driver of the said PUB for gross violation of road transport rules and safety.

Taking immediate action, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade has directed both the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to conduct an immediate investigation and issue the necessary show cause order to the operator of Roval Transport and to the driver of the Roval Transport public utility bus involved in the incident through the EDSA Consortium.

The LTO, through Asec Edgar Galvante and ED Romeo Vera Cruz dispatched patrol cars to the Roval Bus Terminals in Balintawak and Marilao. It was there where they identified the driver as FILIGRIN LOMOSCO.

Immediately, LTO NCR RD Clarence Guinto issued a Show Cause Order to the driver and the operator. The hearing will be on July 27, Monday, at 2:00PM.

The driver was also preventively suspended for 90 days.

This is the second time that such an act of recklessness by a public utility bus on the EDSA Busway had happened.

Earlier, a speeding Joanna Jesh Transport PUB with license plate number CAP 5133 also hit a several barriers on the EDSA Busway.

The LTFRB and the LTO have already acted on the matter with dispatch and instituted the necessary proceedings against Joanna Jesh Transport.

As per DOTr, it will not hesitate to impose the same appropriate sanctions as warranted against the operator of Roval Transport and the driver involved in the second incident.

The agency’s swift action against the recent incidents involving PUBs speeding on EDSA Busway serves as a warning to all road transport partners that the DOTr, LTRB and LTO will never tolerate this irresponsible and reckless manner of driving by authorized PUBs which poses a danger to life and possible damage to property.