Bangkalan Police Sanctions 60 Salt Transport Trucks That Make The Streets Licin Due To Water Drops

Documents of a group of masses during a demonstration at the Suramadu Bridge protested the salt water droplets mixed with oil and diesel which caused a lot of traffic accidents. (ANTARA/HO-Polres Bangkalan)

BANGKALAN - The Bangkalan Police Traffic Unit, East Java, has imposed sanctions on the driver of 60 salt truck fleets that have caused the national road connecting Madura Island in Bangkalan Regency to be slippery due to salt water droplets.

"The sanctions we provide are in the form of a warning to the driver and the person in charge of salt, because the salt-carrying trucks belong to the salt company in four districts in Madura," said Head of Bangkalan Police Traffic Unit AKP Grandika Indera Alert, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, September 26.

He explained that the salt water droplets from the salt-carrying truck were slippery, because the truck's body was smeared with oil and diesel, so that when the salt water dripped onto the highway mixed with oil and diesel, the highway became slippery.

Grandika explained that the sanctions to the 60 salt truck fleets were in a joint operation carried out with the Bangkalan Regency Government and East Java Provincial Government from September 9 to 25, 2023.

"Until tonight, our team is still going into the field, because based on the results of the absorption of information we have done, the delivery is still being carried out," he said.

Gandikan said, based on the team's findings in the field, the salt water transported by the truck fleet dripped, because the packaging pattern did not comply with the provisions, namely it was not wrapped in sacks, but was immediately placed in trucks and the floor of the truck was smeared with oil and salt with the aim of preventing the truck from porous.

"And this salt water mixed with oil and diesel poured onto the highway, when the truck went uphill, such as in Tanah Merah and Gunung Gigir, Bangkalan," he said.

Head of Traffic at the Bangkalan Police, AKP Gandika Indera Waspada, explained that the decision to impose sanctions on the driver and person in charge of the truck was based on the results of a coordination meeting with cross-sectoral parties, such as Se-Madura Raya a few days ago.

"There were several points that became an agreement in the meeting, including salt transport trucks that still shed salt water that were no longer allowed to pass in Bangkalan, and if salt transport trucks were found that were still dripping, they would be secured," he said.

Meanwhile, due to angry water droplets mixed with oil and diesel from dozens of salt carriers, it has caused many traffic accidents, even three of which died.