Burnt Soil Transport Truck Burns On Jakarta - Merak Toll Road, This Causes Accident
Burning Soil Transport Truck. (VOI/Doc. BPBD Tangerang Regency)

TANGERANG, - An earth transport truck was scorched on the Jakarta Merak Toll Road KM 33 towards Jakarta on Friday, August 26, at around 05.45 WIB. The cause of the accident is believed to have been due to an electrical short circuit.

Head of Emergency and Logistics BPBD Tangerang Regency Abdul Munir explained the chronology of the incident began when the driver with the initials S (58) was driving the truck with B 9538 PYX from Ciomas to the Dadap area, Tangerang Regency.

"At the beginning of the incident, according to the driver's statement, smoke appeared from the front left of the truck and the driver pulled the vehicle to the left lane," said Munir when confirmed, Friday, August 26.

Abdul Munir explained, suddenly the driver immediately tried to extinguish the fire. However, the fire spread so quickly that the land transporting truck was completely engulfed in flames.

The matter of the magnitude of the loss from this accident is still waiting for the officer's estimate. "The material losses have not been (estimated), but there were no casualties," he said.


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