Police Findings At The TKP Bus Accident Overturned In Ciater: No Rem Traces

(ANTARA/Rubby Jovan)

JAKARTA - The deadly accident of a tourism bus in Ciater with 11 fatalities is suspected to have occurred due to a failed brake. The head of the Traffic Corps (Kakorlantas) of the National Police Inspector General Pol. Aan Suhanan said that the temporary results of the crime scene did not find any traces of the brakes at the scene, Jalan Raya Kampung Palasari, Ciater District, Subang Regency, West Java.

"So if we look at the existing crime scene, there is no brake track from the bus. There are tire marks, one part, it is suspected that it is right tire, there are several meters there, then until the end of the incident point in front there it hit an electric pole," said Aan while reviewing the crime scene at the scene. the incident was in Subang, reported by ANTARA, Sunday, May 12.

Aan suspects that the bus accident was caused by a failure in the brake function of the bus so that it swerved to the right and hit the car from the opposite direction.

According to him, the absence of traces of the overturned bus brakes must be investigated further. Apart from the failed brakes, there is a possibility that drivers will panic when the deadly event occurs.

"This is no brake track at all. It means, we need to investigate this. Why is there no brake track, whether the brakes are not working or drivers are panicking and so on," he said.

Aan said that after processing the crime scene at the scene, his party would also investigate the damage to vehicles, both buses and residents' vehicles, which were hit before the bus rolled over.

"After processing the crime scene here, we will process the crime scene from vehicle damage, be it Daihatsu Feroza vehicles, bus vehicles, later there will be visible from the impact marks, there will be speed from the bus," he said.

His party also involved a team of experts to check the technical conditions of the bus carrying a group of students from the Lingga Kencana Depok Vocational School after the accident.

"We involve experts to check vehicle technicalities, whether the braking function is functioning or other functions, it will be examined by experts," said Aan.

He said his party was currently still conducting an investigation before determining the possibility of determining the suspect for the incident which resulted in 11 deaths.

"Later, from the results of all investigations, we will conclude, we will hold it, if there is an accident and it is appropriate to be raised to an investigation, we will increase it from this investigation to an investigation. We will determine the suspect," he said.