SENATE President Juan Miguel Zubiri filed a bill that will establish road safety curriculum, campaign and training.

In pushing Senate Bill 786 or the proposed Road Safety Education Act, Zubiri said road traffic accidents claim about 10,000 lives every year in the Philippines.

The bill seeks to integrate basic road safety education into the elementary curriculum and drivers education into the junior and senior high curriculum.

It mandates the development of a Road Safety Training for Traffic Enforcers Program.

The program will guarantee that roads will be under the reliable protection of highly trained enforcers delivering quality public service.

“It is reasonable, then, to institute a national road safety education program beginning with the youth,” Zubiri said in his explanatory note.