High Speed Blong Brake Truck When Hitting Vehicles On Cipularang Toll Derivative Road

Accident on Cipularang Toll Road/PHOTO via ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Head of the Traffic Corps (Kakorlantas) of the National Police, Inspector General Aan Suhanan, said that his party was investigating the cause of the successive accident on the Cipularang KM 92 Toll Road, West Java.

Inspector General Aan explained that from the initial observations, his party found the fact that the truck that raided 17 minibuses was in high teeth when the accident occurred.

"We went to the crime scene (TKP). There, the derivative was approximately 5 kilometers to the crime scene. Then, we found the fact that the person's position is in 4th gear. That means, these are high teeth, while there (walk, red) is derived," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, November 12.

Korlantas investigators will look for the tracks of the brakes that are still left at the scene of the incident at the crime scene which was carried out this morning.

"We are still investigating the cause. It could be human factors, it could be the vehicle itself, it could be the road or weather factors. We will investigate all of this," he said.

On Tuesday morning at 07.10 WIB, the police started the crime scene processing. As a result, for the time being, traffic will be diverted out through the Cikamining Toll Gate (GT) at KM 116 and re-entered via GT Jatiluhur at KM 84 starting at 07.30-08.30 WIB.

It is known that the successive accidents between trucks and 17 minibuses occurred on Monday (11/11) afternoon. Jasa Marga noted that one person died and dozens more were injured.

From information on the ground, it is suspected that the accident occurred due to a truck traveling from Bandung to Jakarta experiencing a failed brake, so that it could not control the speed of the vehicle and hit the vehicles in front of it.