Our roads are populated by unqualified drivers but were given license to drive anyway. If you are careful and obey traffic rules and regulations, chances are your will be likely hit by an ignorant or reckless drivers. These are people who are licensed by the LTO but are not really fit to drive, or otherwise their licenses are fakes. They obtained their driver license by cheating the exam. If you will ask, how many are these type of drivers, your guess is as good as mine. If you got your license from fixers that mill around any LTO office or branch, then you will have a chilling conclusion that they are so many. Remember the 'codigo' he gave you to answer the test, and the reminder not to perfect all your answers. The results of this pernicious practice are self evident: drivers who can not read or understand traffic signs, drivers who do not comprehend road-right-of-way, drivers who obstruct lanes, drivers who do not use signal lights before turning direction or changing lane, drivers who stay at overtaking lane, and so on. That is one of the recurring reasons why our roads are not safe, and road accidents happen very often.
DOTC-LTO should not tolerate cheating in driver tests, as well as the proliferation of fixers around LTO offices. In turn, we as private citizens, should spurn this evil practice, otherwise all of us will lose in the end, either our lives, limbs or our property. It is just a matter of time.
The road to a safer Philippines begins with qualified licensed drivers. Not all of us should drive, especially those who are not trained and competent to do so - they are hazards to themselves, to their loved ones, to us, to everyone in their path. Let's remove them from the streets by revoking their license. But first, the government should clean up the driver test system.
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