Hit-and-run driver called on to accept responsibility
Hit-and-run driver called on to accept responsibility
JAKARTA (JP): Kebayoran Lama Police in South Jakarta have
called on the owner of a white Jimmy jeep to accept
responsibility for the death of a father and son killed in a hit-
and-run incident yesterday morning.
"The owner of the jeep, which was abandoned in traffic on Jl.
Panjang Cipulir, has already been identified," said First
Lieutenant Sugijo of the Kebayoran Lama police subprecinct.
He called on the owner to report to a nearby police station
before police took action.
According to an eyewitness, Heru, the jeep was driven
recklessly on the Kebayoran Lama flyover. Karman, 43, and his son
Sadiman, 14, who were riding on a motorcycle, were killed
instantly.
"I saw the car was speeding too close behind the victims'
bike," he said.
The eyewitness said the speeding car failed to overtake and
collided with the motorcycle, dragging the victims some distance
before their bodies were flung into the flyover's fence.
"I then got off my motorbike and examined the victims, so I
didn't have a chance to see the car's license plate," he said.
Police later found the car abandoned in the middle of traffic
and traced the owner's name via the Jakarta Traffic Police
Directorate data computer.
Officer Sugijo declined to reveal the car's license number,
saying it would interfere with the investigation.
The bodies of the father and son, residents of Petukangan
Utara in Pesanggrahan, were rushed to the Cipto Mangunkusumo
General Hospital for a postmortem.
Karman's wife, Sarijem, holding back tears, was shocked. "How
can someone run into people like that and then just leave them?"
Karwan was an office boy at Bank BNI's branch office on Jl.
Gatot Subroto. According to his wife, he had recently been
treated for an acute heart attack and epilepsy.
"They were riding on a brand-new GL Pro motorbike headed for
the bird market on Jl. Barito to check out the bird prices," she
said, adding that her husband was a fanatic bird collector.
Sadiman, a second year student of the state-run SMP 110 junior
high school, was the eldest son of the couple's three children.
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