The cabbie who complained of being struck in the face by a woman driver asked the Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Wednesday to revoke her license due to her “uncontrollable temper.”
However, the LTO also issued a subpoena to the complainant, Virgilio Doctor, requiring him to undergo a medical checkup Wednesday next week. This will determine whether or not he remains fit to hold a professional driver’s license, especially since he earlier admitted suffering a stroke three years ago, the LTO said.
In his letter to Doctor, LTO law enforcement service director Francis Ray Almora said there may be a need to downgrade Doctor’s driver’s license to nonprofessional “to ensure the riding public that you are fit to drive a ‘for-hire’ motor vehicle.”
According to Almora, under Republic Act 4136, or the “Land Transportation and Traffic Code,” the LTO has the power to ascertain if one’s “health, sight and hearing are sound and normal, and [if a driver] is physically and mentally fit to operate motor vehicles.”
When Doctor appeared before the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board on Monday, he told board member Aileen Lizada that he survived a stroke in 2014. Despite his condition, he said he was still hired in May 2015 by DMC Transport.
In the viral video which showed Cherish Sharmaine Interior berating Doctor, he was shown walking with a limp toward the curb. Doctor earlier said that he went out of the taxi after Interior hit him in the face so that bystanders may be able to attend to him should he fall unconscious.
After filing charges of slight physical injury, unjust vexation and malicious mischief against Interior in the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, Doctor went yesterday to the LTO to ask the agency to revoke her license.
In his four-page complaint-affidavit, Doctor said that canceling Interior’s license “[was] a preemptive measure to prevent further damage or harm against the public.”
“The uncontrollable attitude/temper of [Interior] without revoking her driver’s license will endanger safety of the public,” he claimed.
On Monday, Interior first filed charges of unjust vexation and slight physical injuries against the cab driver after he supposedly drove off and bumped her, causing her to suffer a knee injury. However, the scene was not captured in a video which became viral.