Officer dies in highway accident

Officer dies in highway accident

JAKARTA (JP): A senior officer of the National Police Headquarters died when a truck hit his sedan on the Jagorawi toll road yesterday morning.

Col. Djoko Soesilo, 47, sub-unit chief of the communications and electronics agency at headquarters, was on his way to his office from his home in Purwakarta, West Java, when the driver of the truck loaded with sand lost control of the vehicle and smashed into the officer's sedan.

The impact of the collision, which took place at 5 a.m., was so powerful that both vehicles ended up on the other side of the highway.

Djoko died on the way to the nearby UKI hospital in Cawang, East Jakarta.

The truck's driver, identified as Suranto, is being questioned at the Cililitan police station. (bsr)