Latest Data On Turangga Train Collision With Bandung Local Train: 3 People Died, 23 Injured

The collision between the Turangga Train (KA) and the Bandung Local Train on the plot of Cicalengka Station, Cicalengka District, Bandung Regency, West Java, Friday, (5/1/2023). BETWEEN/Rubby Jovan

Three people were killed and 23 others injured in the Turangga train collision with the Bandung Raya local train in Cicalengka, Bandung Regency.

"Three were killed, 23 were injured," said Head of Public Relations of the West Java Police, Kombes Ibrahim Tompo, Friday, January 5.

"The three victims who died were the driver, assistant driver of the Turangga train and 1 victim was at the Commuter Line Bandung train," Tompo was quoted as saying by Kumparan.

PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) together with the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) will immediately investigate the cause of the train accident (KA) in Cicalengka, Bandung Regency, West Java.

"KAI will also conduct an investigation with the NTSC to find out the cause of the accident," said KAI Vice President Public Relations Joni Martinus in a statement reported by ANTARA, Friday, January 5.

Another effort is to evacuate two series of trains and repair damaged rail lines.

"For KA-KA trips that will pass in the Haurpugur-Cicalengka area, KAI will make efforts to engineer operating patterns in the form of rotating roads and diversion using other transportation," said Joni.

Meanwhile, KAI EVP of Corporate Secretary Raden Agus Dwinanto Budiadji said the railroad line between Haurpugur-Cicalengka was temporarily impassable due to the accident.

KAI apologized for the disruption of services due to the accident between the Turangga train, the Surabaya Gubeng-Bandung and the Greater Bandung Commuterline, at Km 181+700 plots of roads between Haurpugur Station-Cicalengka Station on Friday at 06.03 WIB.