Bus-truck crash leaves driver dead

Bus-truck crash leaves driver dead

SEMARANG: One person was killed, three severely injured and eight
others lightly injured on Friday morning, after a Tri Sakti bus
crashed into a truck on Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan in downtown
Semarang.

The sole fatality in the accident was Atmadi, the bus driver.

According to witnesses, the bus, on the route between Semarang
and Yogyakarta, was speeding and apparently tried to overtake a
car in front.

However, while the bus was overtaking the car, a truck
carrying soft drinks came from the opposite direction, making a
collision unavoidable.

Of the 11 injured bus passengers, five were treated at the
Elizabeth Hospital, five others at Karyadi Hospital, with the
remaining person receiving treatment at Banyumanik Hospital. --
JP