Citing a recent traffic accident which resulted to the death of a woman street cleaner, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Bacolod City passed a resolution urging Mayor Evelio Leonardia to provide protective gears to street cleaners.
In a resolution authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran, the SP requested the Office of the City Mayor to provide reflectorized jackets or vests to street cleaners, particularly those who are assigned during nighttime or wee hours. The resolution stated that the recent incident involving a 70-year old woman of Barangay 39 who was hit and killed by a car while on duty, has proven that even street cleaners are not free from danger. It also cited a similar night time incident in front of the Redemptorist Church along B.S. Aquino Drive where a person was killed. “Before these two incidents, there were numerous reported cases of road accidents which killed or injured people, others caused by hit-&-run vehicles where drivers left their victims or fled from the venue of incidence,” it claimed. The resolution also stated that “those road night accidents, particularly killing our street cleaners on duty would have been avoided if appropriate actions have been properly taken by pertinent office.” As a precaution, the SP deemed it necessary to implement “measures believed to minimize such traffic incidents that unnecessarily victimize our street cleaners”, which include the provision of reflectorized jackets or vests./WDJ WAtchmen Daily Journal
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