Reckless driving
This is a ladder, and its top rung is open-ended: the order names a first offence, a second, and then simply “subsequent”. The money stops rising there; the licence consequence does not. The same limb also absorbs driving an unregistered vehicle, by the order's own cross-reference.
The ladder
Three rungs, and the third has no ceiling above it
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| Offence | Fine | Also | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| First offence | ₱2,000 | — | SCAN · READ BY EYE |
| Second offence | ₱3,000 | 3-month licence suspension from payment of fine | SCAN · READ BY EYE |
| Subsequent offence | ₱10,000 | 6-month licence suspension (3rd offence) from payment of fine; revocation on the offence after that | SCAN · READ BY EYE |
“Subsequent” is the order’s own word for the top rung, and it means every offence from the third onward — not a distinct third-and-final tier with something further above it. A driver apprehended for a fourth time, or a tenth, is on that same rung at that same figure. The money stops climbing there because the instrument stops climbing there; what continues to climb is what happens to the licence, which is set out further down this page.
The order states no period after which the count goes back to zero. That is worth saying plainly rather than assuming either way. Several of this site’s ladders are drafted the same way, and where a reader in another market would expect a rolling window — a count that ages out after a year or two — nothing in this instrument creates one. This site does not supply the missing rule, and the check below asks which offence this is rather than asking for dates it could not use.
Reckless driving is also a classification made by the apprehending officer at the roadside rather than a measurement. There is no threshold in the order that converts a speed, a manoeuvre or a distance into this charge; it is a judgement about the manner of driving, and the same conduct that is written up as reckless driving by one officer may be written up under the schedule’s flat catch-all by another. That is the single largest source of variation in what two drivers pay for what looks like the same act.
Check a rung
Which offence is this?
The instrument states no period after which the count resets, so this asks for a position rather than a date range.
Your offence count
None of these ladders states a reset window. No instrument in this corpus says an offence count lapses after a period, so a second offence is a second offence however long ago the first was.
What that rung states
Fine stated- Fine
- ₱2,000
- Also
- —
JAO 2014-01 §I.e, read from the scanned order
Beyond the money
What happens to the licence
A second offence suspends the licence for 3 months and a third for 6, both counted from the payment of the fine. The offence after that revokes it.
Revocation then splits by licence type, and the split is severe. A revoked non-professional driver is disqualified from being granted a licence for 2 years from the date of revocation. A revoked professional driver is perpetually disqualified from getting any driver’s licence at all.
Note where those clocks start. The suspension runs from the payment of the fine, not from the day of the apprehension — so a driver who settles late has not shortened the suspension by delaying, only moved it. That is the opposite of the anchor the same order’s general procedure uses for the automatic suspension that follows non-payment, which is counted from the apprehension itself. Two anchors, in one document, for two different consequences; this site prints both rather than picking the tidier one.
Revocation is also not the end of the sequence, which is why the split above matters so much more than the figures do. Revocation ends the licence; the disqualification that follows it governs whether a new one can be granted at all, and for a professional driver that second step is the one with no stated end. For anyone who drives for a living, the third rung of this ladder is not a fine — it is the trade.
A cross-reference