A video showing a motorcycle performing reckless maneuvers in Parañaque City caught the attention of Filipinos.
On September 19, automotive publication VISOR posted dashcam footage sent by Jessimmon Lim Ilao, captured on the evening of September 18.
The video showed a four-wheel vehicle driving along a road in Barangay La Huerta when a speeding motorcycle suddenly overtakes it, cuts into another lane and briefly counterflows traffic upon encountering a van.
The van was about to cross to the other side of the road when it encountered the speeding motor, forcing it to stop and wait for the two-wheeled vehicle to pass.
“Heart attack,” the video’s caption read.
The video has garnered 1.5 million views, 11,000 likes and reactions and 1,500 comments from Filipinos condemning the motorcyclist’s risky maneuver.
“Reckless driving ba?” a Facebook user commented.
“Tapos ‘pag binusinahan mo, sila pa galit,” another wrote.
“Bawal talaga ang pag-preno,” a different Pinoy commented, referring to the speeding motorcycle.
“Muntik [nang] maging kwento,” another said.
The Land Transportation and Traffic Code prohibits reckless driving, which is defined operating a motor vehicle “recklessly or without reasonable caution considering the width, traffic, grades, crossing, curvatures, visibility and other conditions of the highway and the conditions of the atmosphere and weather.”
It also includes situations where a driver manueve a vehicle “so as to endanger the property or the safety or rights of any person or so as to cause excessive or unreasonable damage to the highway.”
Counterflowing, or the act of driving against the designated direction of traffic, is likewise prohibited and carries corresponding penalties.