Toll road monster

Toll road monster

From Kompas

We experienced a devastating accident on Sunday, March 30, 1997, when we had just entered onto the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road through the East Bekasi toll gate on our way to Jakarta.

We were traveling in a Toyota Kijang van (B 8898 DM) in the left lane when a brown Feroza look-alike, traveling at high speeds on our right side, hit us in the rear.

Because of the crushing impact, our car, already in bad shape, flipped over and rolled off the toll road. Meanwhile, the road monster calmly left us in the swamp. But God spared our lives, even though we were badly injured and our 14-month-old baby was thrown out of the car.

We are addressing this message to the toll road driver in question. We still do not understand why he was driving his car at breakneck speeds on the toll road. You are actually a coward since you have not shown any sense of responsibility.

We do not really want to know who the driver was. We are not expecting compensation.

We would like to thank the employees of PT Jasa Marga who ordered an ambulance to take us to the hospital. We would also like to thank those people who helped us get out of the wrecked vehicle, who loaned us their cellular phone, gave us something to drink, provided us with tissues and took care of our belongings scattered on the road.

We would like to remind toll road drivers that it is not enough to drive carefully on these roads. There are toll road monsters who believe that they can drive at dangerous speeds without regard for other toll road users.

MATHIAS BULUAMA

Jakarta