BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera office of the Land Transportation Office (LTO-CAR) will be joining the worldwide commemoration of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims on Sunday, November 17, 2019 with simple but meaningful activities that were prepared for the said purpose.
LTO-CAR regional director Francis Ray Almora said that the day will start with a motorcade from the Post Office Loop going to Bokawkan road at around 8 am.
While along the Bokawkan road area, particularly in the accident-prone site of the road in front of a car company, a candlelighting ceremony will be held in the said place which will be participated in by numerous stakeholders that committed to participate in the said commemoration.
After the collection of the candle lighting ceremony, a symposium on road safety awareness will be conducted by the agency at the University of Baguio (UB) gymnasium where numerous issues and concerns on road safety will be tackled by experts who were tapped to provide lectures to the participants.
“We appeal to the public to actively participate in this very important commemoration because it will help enrich our knowledge on how to prevent the occurrence of road crashes in our city and our region as a whole,” Director Almora stressed.
The LTO-CAR official asserted that based on the findings of investigators of road crashes, among the reasons for the occurrence of road crashes include human error, mechanical problem of motor vehicles, and the condition of the roads in the different parts of the city and the region.
He explained that the peculiar terrain of the roads in the region serve as a challenge, especially to lowland drivers, who have the difficulty of adjusting to the prevailing situation, thus, resulting to the occurrence of road crashes that cause loss of innocent lives and inflict serious damages to properties.
The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (#WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year – to remember the many millions killed and injured on the world’s roads, together with their families, friends and many others who are also affected. It is also a Day on which we thank the emergency services and reflect on the tremendous burden and cost of this daily continuing disaster to families, communities and countries, and on ways to halt it. The World Day of Remembrance has a long history: From 1995, road victim organisations under the umbrella of the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) observed this Day together – first as European Day of Remembrance, but soon as World Day when NGOs from Africa, South America and Asia, who were associated members of FEVR, joined. Therefore FEVR is the creator and first owner of the World Day of Remembrance.
Almora claimed that the simple but meaningful activities that were lined up for this year’s commemoration serves as a tribute to the victims of rod crashes and a reminder for motor vehicle owners to ensure their compliance to the prevailing standards to prevent the occurrence of untoward incidents that will compromise the safety of life and limb.
By HENT
