BANDUNG: A vehicle slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brake evidently malfunctioned in Indonesia’s West Java territory, killing at least 11 persons, mostly students, and injuring dozens of people, officials said Sunday.
After a graduating event, a vehicle carrying 61 students and teachers left Bandung, a large class in Depok outside of Jakarta’s money, late on Saturday, according to West Java police spokesman Jules Abraham Abast, who traveled there.
He claimed that it sped out of control on a downward path and crossed paths before colliding with an electrical shaft.
Nine people died at the picture and two people died after in the clinic, including a professor and a nearby vehicle, Abast said. Fifty- three additional individuals were hospitalized with wounds, including some in critical condition, he said.
” We are also investigating the cause of the accident, but a preliminary research showed the car’s brakes malfunctioned”, Abast said.
As ambulances rushed the injured, local broadcast footage showed the mutilated bus in the dark and on its side, surrounded by rescuers, police, and passing residents.
Poor safety requirements and equipment cause frequent road accidents in Indonesia.
At least 14 people were killed and 19 others were hurt when a visitor bus slammed into a poster on a bridge in East Java last year, according to an seemingly sleepy driver. At least 27 people were killed and 39 others were hurt when a visitor bus reportedly malfunctioned in a ravine in the West Java hill resort of Puncak in 2021, sending its passengers flying into the ravine.
