Over 100 public bus drivers pass safe driving course<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A total of 103 bus drivers, with black marks on
\ntheir records for traffic violations, have passed a city police
\nvehicle safety course.<\/p>\n
City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto expressed
\nsurprise yesterday over the drivers sterling performance on a
\ntest which is much more complicated than the one given to new
\napplicants.<\/p>\n
"In general, they correctly answered 95 percent of the test
\nmaterial, which has been revised with lots of difficult
\nquestions," Hindarto said.<\/p>\n
The bus drivers transgressions' include speeding, reckless
\ndriving, picking up or discharging passengers illegally and
\nlending their vehicles to unauthorized drivers.<\/p>\n
The course was a condition for their reinstatement and was
\npart of broader police efforts to instill good driving habits.
\nThe test consisted of a written and a driving portion.<\/p>\n
The test items also contained questions regarding the new
\ntraffic law which was issued last September.<\/p>\n
As predicted the drivers had no problem with the test drive.<\/p>\n
Head of the driving license unit at City Police headquarters,
\nMaj. Yudi Sushariyanto, who chaired the tests, said the results
\nshowed that bad driving does not come from a lack of knowledge.<\/p>\n
"The result of this review test indicated that many drivers of
\npublic transit vehicles know well about traffic regulations, and
\nthat their obedience to traffic law is another matter-- their
\nattitude," Yudi said.<\/p>\n
Transit safety has become a focus after a series of serious
\naccidents in the city recently, in particular the packed minibus
\nwhich careened into the muddy, heavily polluted Sunter River
\nkilling 33 people.<\/p>\n
Sloppy drivers<\/p>\n
Critics, blaming Yudi's office for the accident, said that
\nmany of the sloppy drivers get their licenses easily as long as
\nthey pay a bribe to the police officers, regardless of their
\ndriving ability.<\/p>\n
According to Yudi, the police will blacklist any of the
\nparticipant of the driving course if they are find to violate the
\nlaw in the future.<\/p>\n
"They would never get another driving license for the rest of
\ntheir life and we'll ask their companies to discharge them," he
\ninsisted.<\/p>\n
According to data at the City Police, the number of traffic
\naccidents, especially those caused by the drivers's negligence,
\nhave increased significantly in the last few years.<\/p>\n
Last year, of the 249 serious traffic accidents in the city,
\n36 were caused by the negligence of public bus drivers.<\/p>\n
As of the third month of this year, four of 30 fatal accidents
\nhave been caused by the negligence of city bus drivers. (bsr)<\/p>",
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