KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO
IT looks like the Department of Transportation and its connected agencies will be forced to postpone the implementation of RA 10913, or the Act Defining and Penalizing Distracted Driving. Senators JV Ejercito and Nancy Binay have stepped in (JournalOnline, May 22, 2017), knocking some sense into the DOTr’s over-interpretation—if not power trip—which will allow them to penalize drivers for even taking a drink from a coffee tumbler, or having rosaries hanging on their rearview mirrors, or air fresheners on their dashboards.