Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No, _3387

introduced by Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Recent incidents and offenses resulting from road rages have now raised this emerging
phenomenon as a serious public safety concern.

If unabated, it will cause harm and injury or even death to motorists on the road who might
figure in an aggressive behavior from some drivers on our busy roads and highways.

An incident of such road rage that went viral is graphic of the attributes of road rage that might
endanger not just the life of otherwise innocent passengers (i.e. taxi) or private cars (i. friends
or relatives) as well as cause damage to property just because drivers cannot exercise sobriety
reflective of aggressive or anti-social behavior.

There must have been countless cases of road rage that while not documented have become
too alarming to be ignored or taken for granted in our own roads and highways alone owing
largely to an unprecedented number of vehicles on the road 24/7. Thus before it becomes a
serious problem going out of hand, this bill seeks to impose stringent penalties against drivers
involved in road rage.

Comparatively, this problem is experienced in other countries like the USA and UK where
according to a 2003 Gallup poll saw more road rage incidents with 80% of drivers reporting that
they had been the target of road rage. Again, in the 2012 survey, it was reported that two thirds
of drivers had been the victim of road rage at some point within the previous 12 months and
85% admitted to behavior within this period indicative of road rage.

It is not as if no solution could put an end to this rise in road rage. Punishments are in order if
only to save countless motorists from every potential threat, harm, death, and damage to
property and the dangers they pose to others at the scene of road rage.

In this light, this bill is deemed of urgent nature before each of the millions of motorists out there
who might just become the unwitting victim of road rage. -Fretmmediate passage of this
humble measure is therefore most earnestly sought.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 3387

introduced by Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo

AN ACT
IMPOSING THE PENALTY OF TWO YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT AND/OR A FINE OF
200,000.00 AGAINST A DRIVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE FOUND TO HAVE COMMITTED
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR INDICATIVE OF ROAD RAGE AND PRESCRIBING GUIDELINES
THEREFOR

Be it enacted in Senate and the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the “Road Rage Punishment Act.”

SEC. 2. Road rage as defined under this Act encompasses a wide range of behavior
from threatening words or gestures all the way up to actual assault. Between these two
extremes can be found a variety of incidents, involving aggressive driving and potential property
damage

SEC. 3. The penalty of two years of imprisonment and/or a fine of P200,000.00 is
hereby imposed against a driver of a motor vehicle found to have committed aggressive
behavior indicative of road rage upon finding of due cause by a competent authority in charge of
traffic and road safety.

However, if there is no basis enough to implicate a driver or would warrant finding guilt of
road rage, the appropriate offense that could be charged would depend on what their rage
drove them to do like charge of assault or bodily harm if the driver got out of their car and
assaulted another driver, as the case may be.

SEC. 4. The Philippine National Police and the Land Transportation Office shall jointly
issue appropriate rules, regulations, and guidelines to effectively implement the provisions of
this Act

SEC. This Act shall take effect immediately upon approval and publication in the Official
Gazette and at least three (3) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,