Traffic police officer hit by bus

Traffic police officer hit by bus

JAKARTA (JP): A Hiba Utama bus hit and killed a traffic police
officer in front of the Holland Bakery store on Jl. Hasyim Ashari
in Central Jakarta on Tuesday morning.

Chief of Gambir Police subprecinct Comr. Nurhadi said the
victim, Adj. Brig. Rohadi, 44, was also a member of the police
station's motorcycle patrol.

Nurhadi, who came to see Rohadi's body at the Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital morgue told journalists that Rohadi
was busy directing traffic at 7 a.m., when the speeding bus
suddenly hit him from behind.

The father of two children died on the spot.

The bus driver, identified as Purwandri, 37, drove off
immediately after hitting Rohadi. He was arrested in the Roxy
area by other police officers who pursued the bus on motorcycles.

The driver said that he was driving the bus at a high speed as
he was in a hurry to pick up factory employees in Cengkareng. He
failed to stop the bus when he saw the police officer because the
vehicle's brakes did not work.

Rohadi's wife Yulia, 33, who came to the morgue did not
comment on her husband's death or the future of her two children
who are both at school.(01)