Toll Accident

An accident involving multiple vehicles on the Cikampek-Palimanan toll road

killed 12 people in the early hours of Monday.

another 11 people had been seriously injured and 32 others had sustained minor injuries.

“The bodies have been taken to Hospital

The accidents happened on the lane heading to Jakarta from the east, near Kilometer 150 of the toll road.

Police suspect that the bus driver,

who was moving on the lane heading away from Jakarta

and may have been sleep-deprived,

trespassed the road separator

and thereby got onto the opposite lane.

There is no concrete barrier at that section of the road, only a narrow green strip.

The bus first hit the Innova and then the Xpander and the truck, all of which were heading to Jakarta.

The death toll of this accident exceeds the total fatalities on the toll road

during the recent Idul Fitri holiday period.

We have corrected the name of the bus involved in the accident to Safari.

The bus company, Salatiga-based Royal Safari, is different from that operating the Safari Dharma Raya buses. 

A preliminary investigation into an accident

has revealed that before the accident occurred,

a passenger had tried to snatch a cell phone from a bus driver

before the bus went over the road separator and hit three vehicles.

The accident at the 150 kilometer point on the Cikopo-Palimanan (Cipali) toll road

also severely injured 11 people,

while 32 others sustained minor injuries,

The driver was in the lane heading from Jakarta and went over the road separator,

going into the opposite lane. The...