Six killed in two road accidents
Six killed in two road accidents
JAKARTA (JP): Six people were killed and four severely injured
in two separate accidents on Jl. Letjen S. Parman and at the
Kebon Jeruk toll gate in West Jakarta early yesterday morning.
The first three victims died after they were squeezed between
two speeding Kopaja minibuses on Jl. Letjen. S. Parman, a police
officer who requested anonymity said.
The three were hanging from the doorway of the fully-packed
Kopaja B-88 plying on the Kalideres-Kebon Jeruk route when it
collided with another vehicle belonging to the same company, the
officer said.
They were identified as Eyong Effendi, 23, the minibus
conductor; Nikmat Khoir, 18, a third year student at the state-
run Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 Islamic school in Joglo, West
Jakarta; and Ismanto, 16, a first-year student at Muhammadiyah
High School in Gelong Baru, also West Jakarta.
The minibus collided side-on at high speed with a Kopaja B-95
which it was trying to overtake, he said.
The officer said that Supriyanto, the driver of the B-95 bus,
gave himself up to the police and is being held at Pesing police
station, while the driver of the B-88 bus fled the scene.
The officer explained that the two buses had been racing each
other since Jl. Daan Mogot.
The bodies of Eyong, Nikmat and Ismanto were taken to Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital for postmortem examinations.
Three other people died and four more were injured when an M-
12 minivan skidded at Kebon Jeruk toll gate early yesterday
morning. The driver lost control of the vehicle when he tried to
stop after mistakenly driving up to a blocked gate at high speed.
Harsono, a toll gate attendant, was quoted by Antara as saying
that the minivan, which was plying the Kota-Senen route, drove
toward the gate at high speed at 00.30 a.m.
"Unfortunately the minivan approached the closed gate without
reducing speed. The driver became aware of his mistake only after
the van was too close to the gate to avert disaster," he said.
The driver turned sharply to the right then lost control. The
vehicle rolled over several times before coming to a stop. (ivy)