Strong Winds!?

Philippines - A bus fell from the the Skyway (link to wiki) as it was traveling southbound from the City of Makati to Muntinlupa City.  According to the bus conductor/inspector the bus bus was cruising at around 70 kph when it was supposedly hit by a strong wind which cause the bus driver to lose control and fall of the near Parañaque City.

What a load of crap!  Do you really believe that the Filipino people are that naive and gullible?  Come on, come up with a better excuse!  CCTV footage shows the bus was racing with another vehicle!  And the bus was not even supposed to be plying the Skyway!  It was violation of your franchise!

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Reports have confirmed that the CCTV cameras caught the bus owned by Dimples Start Transport bus company, was racing with another vehicle and that the accident was cased by the driver's recklessness.  No pun to the driver that died, but this it what happens to reckless drivers!

The current system of paying drivers with commissions based on the number of passengers they have and the number of trips they go on should change!  There should be fixed income for bus drivers.  This would alleviate the traffic jams bus drivers cause when they literally make EDSA (Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue) and every other highway a parking lot waiting for their buses to be crammed with passengers like a can of sardines!

Lives of innocents are at stake here.  As a public transport (common carrier), extraordinary diligence is required, apparently extraordinary diligence for bus companies mean being careless and consider only the profit without thinking about the lives of the commuting passengers.

Reports say that the President Benigno S. Aquino III (Noynoy) is displeased with the incident.  Well he should be.  He is a reformist.  This is one of the things he should reform!

The bus company was suspended, but that should not end their, the franchise should be cancelled and the owners banned from owning any public transportation franchise for life.  The management and the owners of the Bus Company should be prosecuted for criminal negligence and willfully encouraging the reckless behaviors of their drivers and employees and the conductor and the bus company's representatives prosecuted for giving false and misleading information to the investigators.

The passengers and their relatives should file a civil case against the Dimple Bus Company for all its assets.  Include a praying for Temporary Restraining Order to freeze all the bank accounts of the bus company so that it won't be syphoned of to the owners' (and their dummies) personal accounts.