LTFRB cancels Dimple Star Bus franchise

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has canceled the entire franchise of Dimple Star Bus due to previous accidents involving their units, dzBB's Allan Gatus reported on Dobol B sa News TV on Wednesday.

FLASH: 11 prangkisa ng Dimple Star Bus, kinansela ng LTFRB. | via @allangatus pic.twitter.com/95t197UyRx

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) December 5, 2018

The agency decided to cancel all of the 11 franchises  of Dimple Star Bus which has 118 bus units following a hearing on Wednesday.

On March, a bus unit of the company was involved in a road accident in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, where 19 people were killed while 21 others were injured.

Citing their records from 2011 to 2018, LTFRB Chairman Martin Delgra III said the busline was involved in eight road accidents which claimed 29 lives and left 134 others injured. —Joviland Rita/KBK, GMA News