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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 652, March 7, 1960 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM THE FIRST MONDAY TO THE SUCCEEDING SUNDAY OF MAY OF EVERY YEAR AS NATIONAL TRAFFIC SAFETY WEEK AND THE MONDAY FOLLOWING AS SAFE DRIVING DAY (S-D DAY) AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR CELEBRATION

WHEREAS, the loss of life, limb, and property resulting from traffic accidents has gone up to an unprecedented figure;

WHEREAS, it is the government’s duty to solve the critical traffic situation with a view to minimizing, if not totally eliminating, traffic accidents and the resulting loss of life and destruction of property;

WHEREAS, in the furtherance of this duty, it is necessary to conduct an efficacious educational campaign by the use of leaflets, posters, banners, billboards, signboards, mass media, the radio and other appropriate means to arouse traffic-safety consciousness and impel the observance of traffic and road courtesy rules and regulations; and

WHEREAS, losses due to traffic are bigger during the summer months when many people travel on their vacation;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from the first Monday up to the succeeding Sunday of May of every year as National Traffic Safety Week and the Monday following as Safe Driving Day (S-D Day).

A committee is hereby created to take charge of the celebration of National Traffic Safety Week and Safe Driving Day, the same to be composed of the following:

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The Undersecretary for Communications and Transportation Chairman
The Chief, Traffic Control Group, P. C. Member
The Chief, Manila Police Department Member
The Public Service Commissioner Member
The Administrator, Motor Vehicles Office Member
The President, Philippine Motors Association Member
The President, Manila Rotary Club Member
The President, Manila Lions Club Member
The President, Philippine Safety Council Member
The President, Safety Organization of the Philippines, Inc. Member
The President, Manila Jaycees Member
The Operations Officer, Traffic Control Group, P. C. Secretary

Proclamation No. 644, dated February 8, 1960, is hereby revoked.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and Sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary


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