‘New jeepney, old driver’: Modern jeep draws flak for counterflowing in Novaliches

February 12, 2026 – 8:00 AM

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“New jeepney, old driver.”

A modern jeepney was spotted driving recklessly by counterflowing on a main road in

Novaliches

The incident

occurred

near the Novaliches branch of the Land Transportation Office, the agency issuing driver’s licenses.

An individual inside a dashcam-equipped vehicle could not help but exclaim a profanity when a speeding public utility vehicle (PUV) approached them and then swerved into another lane to avoid a collision.

“New jeepney, old driver,” an

online user

“Nasa driver talaga ang problema, regardless kung ano pang sasakyan ang dala niya,” another

Pinoy said.

user

“You can take the driver out of the jeep, but not the jeep out of the driver,” another

said

Land Transportation and Traffic Code

prohibits reckless driving, which is

defined

as operating a motor vehicle “recklessly or without reasonable caution considering the width, traffic, grades, crossing, curvatures, visibility and other conditions of the highway and the conditions of the atmosphere and weather.”

The law also covers situations in which a driver maneuvers a vehicle “so as to endanger the property or the safety or rights of any person or so as to cause excessive or unreasonable damage to the highway.”

In the Philippines, first-time offenders face a P2,000 fine and a three-month driver’s license suspension.

Only emergency vehicles are permitted to counterflow