Drag race stopped

JAKARTA (JP): A drag race in the broad street in the former Kemayoran airport ground was suspended yesterday after a car veered off track and into the spectators' area.

Four spectators and four members of a crew team were injured, witnesses said.

The accident is the third in the same place this year.

The race was organized by the Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Motor Association (IMI).

"IMI should take punitive measures against its Jakarta branch for allowing a race to run on a track which does not provide safe stands for spectators," Rio Sarwono, an official of the Sentul circuit management, said. (amd)