Truck Loading 9 Tons Of Cooking Oil Rolls Over In Duren Sawit, Drivers And Residents Slowly Transfer Oil To Jerrycans

Spilled cooking oil on asphalt after a truck rolled over on the road/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA – In the midst of high cooking oil prices in a number of markets in Jakarta and its surroundings, a tanker truck loaded with cooking oil overturned on Jalan Masjid Abidin, Duren Sawit District, East Jakarta.

The tanker truck with the license plate number B 9902 WF overturned after the rear tire got stuck in a water channel on the side of the road when it was about to park in front of a shop.

Ukar, an eye witness and shop owner said that the truck driver carrying cooking oil from Marunda, North Jakarta to East Jakarta, was not injured. The truck driver managed to escape moments before the truck overturned.

"The way, the decker is not strong, it has been casted again. It's just that it's not strong, it finally broke," Ukar told reporters, Wednesday, April 6.

The tanker truck driver, according to Ukar, was just shocked. Because he didn't expect the nine-tonne truck he was driving would overturn so that a number of cargoes spilled all over the shop's streets.

"And those behind (the witness who saw the incident) also didn't bother (aware) that it (the road) was not strong. An accident, again wanting to park, parked behind," he said.

After the incident, the driver was assisted by shop employees and local residents trying to move the load of cooking oil into jerry cans to facilitate the process of evacuating the truck body to its original position.

A tow truck was deployed in the evacuation process. The evacuation process takes time because the load of cooking oil must be sterile.