Very common here, unfortunately. May I suggest in the future you check your side view mirrors before turning (left or right) because idiots on motorbikes are always trying to pass cars on both left and right sides irregardless of your turn signals and you can hopefully avoid this in the future. Also check before trying to change lanes too.
Yes, I know it's technically their fault but they are not going to stop doing it just because we want them to so a bit of caution is warranted on the drivers part to avoid wasting many, many hours of filing reports and insurance claims that get nothing accomplished except you pay the tab either for repairs or in higher premiums for insurance in the future.
Some other good rules to use when going into a blind curve is to honk your horn to warn any idiot trying to pass someone in the other direction coming around that blank corner. Better to honk than get into a head on collision with a sugarcane truck or a$$hat motorbike.
Also at night it helps to flash your brights in the same blank corners or curves for the same reason.
Lotz of Di#kh#ads here don't' have insurance, license or two piso to rub together to pay for repairs or even headlights and the TMG doesn't enforce the rules anyway.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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I got myself all confused here. I read the OP wrong and thought he was turning right and was hit on the right by someone passing him on the right. I also posted that traffic law too early in the morning and hadn't fully woken up yet (too early to know my left from my right). So I'll give it a go again.
If he was at an intersection when he made the turn there is no passing allowed:
R.A. 4136
Overtaking:
This law defines "highways" as: "shall mean every public thoroughfare, public boulevard, driveway, avenue, park, alley and callejon, but shall not include roadway upon grounds owned by private persons, colleges, universities, or other similar institutions."
Simply put, in the Philippines it is against the law to pass anyone at any intersection of the public roads on the vast majority of the roadways here...unless you are passing a person turning left on the right or vice-versa. Unless Mikala was turning into a private driveway the people behind him had no right to be passing him in the first place.
Turning left:
Right of Way:
Nothing about giving way to people coming from behind you and it actually reads as if every single person coming to an intersection must give way to whoever was there first.....unless there is a stop light/sign/traffic enforcer dictating who has the right of way (and there ain't too many of those in Dumaguete).
This is an important one to take note of. If someone pulls out in front of you to make a left turn and you hit them, you are technically at fault (even though they were being complete knobs and not using common sense). Whoever is at an intersection first always has the right of way according to Philippine law.
From the pdf:
The Vienna convention is not law around the world. It is designed to offer guidance to signatories....and it is on those signatories to enact their own laws (which the Philippines has obviously not done
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