TO:   ALL CLERKS OF COURT OF THE METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS AND MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS 

SUBJECT:   REPORT OF CASES ON VIOLATION OF TRAFFIC LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS ORDAINED UNDER R.A. 4136, as AMENDED. 

The fatal vehicular incidents that occurred on the same day on June 22, 1996 in Gumaca, Quezon and Leyte, wherein more than thirty (30) persons died, prompted President Fidel V. Ramos to send written instructions to Assistant Secretary Manuel F. Bruan, Head of the Land Transportation Office [LTO] " to institute stricter measures to improve public safety on roads especially Vehicle and Driver safety." 

Although such serious vehicular accidents usually wind up in Courts, and the guilty party meted the penal sanction, nonetheless the accessory penalty as to whether the driver's license would be revoked or suspended would suffer the fate of oblivion. The principal cause is failure of Clerks of Court to furnish the LTO or its nearest agency a copy of the judgment of conviction or acquittal. Such lamentable state of complacency cannot be condoned. 

Pursuant, therefore, to Sections 4[d], 8 and 58 in relation to Sections 16, 27 and 29 of R.A. 4136 as amended, in order to achieve the objectives thereof, ie., of instilling traffic discipline and fulfilling vehicle safety, driver safety and road safety in our highways, upon request of Assistant Secretary Manuel F. Bruan, Head of the Local Transportation Office, you are hereby ordered: