Drivers license of former beauty queen revoked for entering ASEAN Lane

November 27, 2017

The Department of Transportation-Land Transportation Office has revoked the driver’s license of former beauty queen and actress Ma. Isabel Lopez for removing orange cones and plying the ASEAN Lane along EDSA last November 11.

In a resolution dated Nov. 23, 2017 but released Monday, LTO chief Edgar Galvante also ordered Lopez, whose real name is Maria Isabel Lopez Yokohama, to pay a total of P8,000 fine for disregarding traffic signs, reckless driving, and violation of the Anti-Distracted Driving Act.

Yokohama is expected to surrender her license, which will expire on September 2018, within 24-hours upon receipt of the resolution to the office of the LTO Director for Law Enforcement.

The resolution read that “…respondent Yokohama expressly admitted her failure to meet the conditions concomitant with the grant of her license. The defenses she proffered are considered lame and merely self-serving.”

“Worse, she showed no remorse and even publicized with gusto her improper and illegal acts on social media, which betray her utter lack of responsibility as a licensed driver, thus making her an improper person to operate a motor vehicle,” it added.

Yokohama alleged that she asked permission from an MMDA traffic enforcer to allow her to pass through the ASEAN Lanes but was denied. She requested again the traffic enforcer that she be allowed to use the ASEAN lane but the MMDA personnel left in the middle of their conversation. DMS