Traffic police officer hit by bus<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A Hiba Utama bus hit and killed a traffic police
\nofficer in front of the Holland Bakery store on Jl. Hasyim Ashari
\nin Central Jakarta on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Chief of Gambir Police subprecinct Comr. Nurhadi said the
\nvictim, Adj. Brig. Rohadi, 44, was also a member of the police
\nstation's motorcycle patrol.<\/p>\n
Nurhadi, who came to see Rohadi's body at the Cipto
\nMangunkusumo General Hospital morgue told journalists that Rohadi
\nwas busy directing traffic at 7 a.m., when the speeding bus
\nsuddenly hit him from behind.<\/p>\n
The father of two children died on the spot.<\/p>\n
The bus driver, identified as Purwandri, 37, drove off
\nimmediately after hitting Rohadi. He was arrested in the Roxy
\narea by other police officers who pursued the bus on motorcycles.<\/p>\n
The driver said that he was driving the bus at a high speed as
\nhe was in a hurry to pick up factory employees in Cengkareng. He
\nfailed to stop the bus when he saw the police officer because the
\nvehicle's brakes did not work.<\/p>\n
Rohadi's wife Yulia, 33, who came to the morgue did not
\ncomment on her husband's death or the future of her two children
\nwho are both at school.(01)<\/p>",
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