LOOK: Students take overloaded tricycles to school in Quezon

Students going to school in Calauag town in Quezon may be risking their lives daily by taking overloaded tricycles.

Photos by GMA News correspondent Peewee Bacuño showed students clambering aboard tricycles on Maharlika Highway in Barangay Santo Domingo.

Most of them attend classes at Sto. Domingo National High School and Sto. Domingo Elementary School.

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In several cases, the tricycles go very fast, with their drivers sometimes trying to keep up with bigger vehicles along the national highway.

Barangay police said there is a town ordinance in Calauag barring overloading of tricycles. A tricycle can accommodate up to seven passengers.

But some tricycle drivers said many students come from remote areas and would risk riding overloaded tricycles.

Meanwhile, the principal of Sto. Domingo National High School said they are coordinating with tricycle drivers and the Parent-Teachers' Association to address the problem. — Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News