Bodies of accident victims claimed

Bodies of accident victims claimed

BOGOR (JP): Relatives have claimed the bodies of five people
killed in an accident on the Jagorawi toll road Thursday from the
PMI General Hospital, a hospital employee said yesterday.

"No one was crying because those picking up the bodies were
all men. But from their facial expressions, we could see they
were deeply grieving," said the employee, who asked not to be
named.

Four of the five victims were passengers of a Suzuki Carry
van, while the other one was a driver's assistant of a sand
truck, which had stopped on the shoulder of the toll road because
of a flat tire.

The four passengers were Fahrudin, 28; Endang, 26; Suparman
Muhtadi, 34, and Jaya Jamaludin, 37, while the driver's assistant
was Dodi Achdiat, 29.

The accident took place when the van, traveling in the
direction of Bogor to Jakarta, hit a Peugeot sedan from the left
side at high speed, according to the police report.

The van's driver had apparently been startled to see the
stopped truck in front of him and suddenly turned to the right,
hitting the sedan. The van then hit the truck, killing Dodi who
was changing the truck's tire.

The sedan overturned and came to a stop facing oncoming
traffic. Its four passengers sustained only light injuries, the
report said. (24)