Cianjur-Sukabumi Normal Route After Serial Accident Kills 1 Person

The tronton truck with the number D 9548 XA was the cause of a series of accidents on Jalan Raya Cianjur, Sukabumi, Friday (12/7/2024).(ANTARA)

The police confirmed that the main route to Cianjur to Sukabumi could be accessed after the completion of the handling of a series of collisional tronton trucks, Jumar 12 July. This deadly accident caused the identity of 1 victim to die.

Head of Gakkum Satlantas Cianjur Police, Ipda Ika Cakra Mustika said the accident started with a tronton truck numbered D 9548 XA driven by Soleh (39), a resident of Sukabumi, suspected of having failed brakes, hitting a number of vehicles.

"It is suspected that the accident started with a truck driven by Soleh (39), a Sukabumi resident, traveling from Sukabumi to Cianjur, experiencing a failed brake so that the speed of the uncontrolled truck hit a number of open tub vehicles, motorbikes and trees and eventually fell," he said in Cianjur Friday, July 12, confiscated by Antara.

As a result, one motorcyclist whose identity has not been identified died on the spot, one person suffered serious injuries, namely the driver of the Soleh tronton truck and another victim named Lukman (34), a resident of Gekbrong District, suffered minor injuries.

He explained that until now officers are still conducting further investigations to determine the cause of the accident by collecting evidence, asking for statements from a number of witnesses and processing the crime scene.

"The truck driver is still in medical treatment at the Gekbrong Health Center and his condition cannot be questioned," he said.

He added that the traffic flow had been cut off during the process of evacuating the carcass of the truck that had fallen, using three large cranes, after an hour later the flow could pass normally from both directions.

Meanwhile, eyewitness testimony of the accident that caused a motorcyclist to die on the spot after a tronton truck suffered a failed brake on the road, a sharp decline on Jalan Raya Cianjur-Sukabumi, precisely in Songgom Village, Gekbrong District.

"I had a chance to cross a truck that was traveling at high speed when entering a downhill road, the driver shouted wary of failed brakes, failed brakes," said witness Iyus (40), a motorcycle rider.

In fact, he had turned around to convey a message to other motorists, but had not had time to convey his intention that the truck had hit a pickup truck and a motorcycle rider.

"I had time to go back and give a warning to motorists who passed in the same direction and from the opposite direction, only a few meters back in the direction I saw the truck had hit another vehicle and a motorcycle," he said.