Bus Accident - Toll Road - Mental Health

Anshor is the suspect behind the fatal bus accident that

The accident killed 12 people on the Cikopo–Palimanan (Cipali) toll road earlier this week

He is alleged to suffer from mental illness.

The 29-year-old allegedly suffers from paranoia, anxiety attacks and perception disorder,.

He often hallucinated and felt

he was being followed or watched by someone,

Anshor's condition was revealed following psychological assessments

conducted by a psychological team of the National Police and West Java police.

“The indication is that

he suffers from mental health.

We need to have experts examine him further,

Mariyono explained that

on the bus, Anshor felt the driver was answering a phone call from someone

discussing a murder plan against him.

This allegedly prompted him to attack the driver

and stop the bus by jumping and sitting on him

while trying to stop the bus from moving.

 It was reported earlier that Anshor allegedly tried to snatch the mobile phone from the driver.

Anshor was sitting on the left side of the bus in the front row behind the driver’s assistant

in the intercity Safari bus heading to Cirebon.

When the bus driver was driving, he was holding a mobile phone in his left hand.

He works as a security guard in Jakarta

As the bus was moving, the suspect,  he was said to hear the driver saying

“I’m going to kill you” in Javanese.

“Anshor suddenly attacked the driver by trying to take over the wheel,”

Anshor's right leg directly got in between the driver’s legs to hit the break.

As the driver was panicked, he kept the bus moving

while the two were fighting over the wheel.

The driver’s assistant tried to break the two apart by holding Anshor's shoulder.

The alleged altercation led to the driver losing control of the bus.

The bus went over the road separator and

The bus hit three vehicles coming from the opposite direction.

As many as 12 people died, including passengers of the bus and of the three vehicles.

The bus driver also died in the incident

while Anshor survived.

The accident, which took place at kilometer 150 of the toll road on Monday,

The accident also left 43 people injured.

Fatal smash: An official of (KNKT) checks a badly damaged  bus

following an accident on the Cipali toll road.

 

The accident, which involved four vehicles at KM151,

 

The accident claimed 12 lives and

The accident left 45 injured.