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BY RESEL JOY TIANERO
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
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ILOILO City – Anyone applying for a driver’s license will have to go through stricter screening soon, according to the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
Executive Director Romeo Vera Cruz also vowed that the LTO will strictly enforce the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act of 2013.
Recent road rage incidents prompted the LTO to toughen up its policies, said Vera Cruz.
Driver’s license applicants will be subject to questioning.
A medical certificate will also be required of them, he said in a television interview.
“We are … [asking] them the type of questions that they need to answer,” Vera Cruz said. He did not specify the type of questions.
A driver’s license is “an official document authorizing an individual to drive a motorized vehicle in the Philippines,” the LTO said.
The agency issues three types: student permit, nonprofessional driver’s license and professional driver’s license.
According to the LTO, people applying for a driver’s license must be at least 18 years old, physically and mentally fit to operate a motor vehicle, able to read and write in Filipino or English.
Applicants must be “clean, neat and presentable,” and “wearing of sando, sports shorts and slippers during photo-taking and examinations [are] not allowed,” said the agency.
Meanwhile the LTO is waiting for the supply of breath analyzers they will use in enforcing the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act.
The law penalizes “acts of driving under the influence of alcohol, dangerous drugs and other intoxicating substances.”
Under the Act, a breath analyzer “refers to the equipment which can determine the blood alcohol concentration level of a person through testing of his breath.”
Anyone suspected to be driving under the influence may also be subjected to field sobriety tests, or “standardized tests to initially assess and determine intoxication, such as the horizontal gaze nystagmus, the walk-and-turn [and] the one-leg stand.”/PN
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