Police want bus company owner after crash
Police want bus company owner after crash
Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Tangerang
Tangerang Police will send officers to the Arief Rahman Hakim bus
company offices, demanding the company's owner take
responsibility for the collision between a bus and truck on the
Tangerang to Jakarta toll road on Tuesday that claimed six lives
and injured 34 others.
"We have summoned the company owner to take responsibility for
the incident but he has not yet shown up. We'll send officers to
forcibly bring him to our office if necessary," said Tangerang
Police traffic division chief, Adj. Comr. Titik Setianingsih on
Wednesday.
Police are also still searching for bus driver Jaspen, who
escaped. Jaspen, who lives in Umung Jaya subdistrict, Jati Uwung
district, Tangerang, fled the scene soon after the tragedy.
Titik said that police had managed to identify two victims:
the bus driver's assistant, Hutabarat, 30, and a passenger, Rais,
40.
She added that the number of fatalities would likely increase
in view of the critical condition of 10 severely injured
passengers. One of them, Marzuki, had to be transferred from
Graha Medika hospital, Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, to Cipto
Mangunkusumo general hospital, Central Jakarta, due to the
seriousness of his injuries.
Tuesday's accident, the fourth on the Tangerang toll road this
year, took place at 5:50 a.m. when the overloaded bus hit a
container truck after passing the Karang Tengah toll gate, later
hitting another parked truck. Both the bus and the second truck
end up in a ditch.
Relative of Yery Tude -- one of the victims who lived in
Serpong, Tangerang -- went to the Tangerang general hospital
morgue late on Tuesday to claim his remains.
"I never thought that Yery would die so soon. We haven't yet
told his wife that he was killed in the accident. I cannot face
her and their six-month-old baby. I just hope my younger sister
can deal with it," said Harun Taliawo, Yery's brother-in-law.
Yery's friend Endan Dansah said that Yery had uttered a
strange thing the morning before the accident.
"I don't feel like working today; that's unusual, isn't it?"
Endan quoted Yery as saying.
"We'll really miss him. I never thought that our conversation
would be the last," he said while accompanying Harun to claim
Yery's body.