Three killed when train crashes into truck

Three killed when train crashes into truck

Three people were killed and six others
heavily injured on Friday afternoon after an executive train
traveling between Yogyakarta and Jakarta collided with a truck in
Landung subdistrict in Central Java.

Two of the three killed were truck passengers, while another
victim was a nearby bicycle rider. The six who were injured were
construction workers aboard the truck.

As of Friday evening, the police were still trying speak with
witnesses about the exact causes of the accident.

One witness, Kosin, 30, said that the accident occurred when
the speeding truck driven by a man identified as Kasijo, drove
onto the train tracks where it crossed the road in Landung
subdistrict, apparently trying to get across before the train but
he apparently misjudged the speed of the train.

Kosin said that the accident looked inevitable as the truck
driver never really had a chance to beat the train.

The three dead were identified as Slamet, Wahono and Edi, all
were residents of Kewarasan district in Kebumen regency. The
identity of the five injured was not known.

The railway traffic returned to normal two hours after the
incident occurred at 4 p.m.

The accident occurred just a day after a train-minivan
collision in the East Java regency of Kediri, that took three
lives. -- JP