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Latest Rail Crossing Death a Reminder of Low Safety Awareness: Officials
Vento Saudale | April 25, 2013


Railway officials have lamented the low level of public awareness of train safety following the death of a man in Bogor who was hit by a train while crossing the tracks on Tuesday night.

Suhardono, the head of the local railway police, said on Wednesday that the accident occurred in Cibogor ward, in Central Bogor subdistrict, at around 11:15 p.m.

Witnesses said that the victim, identified as Adriyanto, 29, was walking from his home, about 20 meters from the tracks, to a neighborhood on the other side.

While crossing, he appeared not to notice the train coming and was run down.

Suhardono said the incident was just the latest in a string of railway accidents this year, highlighting low public awareness regarding railway safety.

Prior to Tuesday’s accident, the railway police had recorded 17 safety-related incidents this year along the Jakarta-Bogor line, resulting in two deaths and eight injuries.

Suhardono said 10 of those incidents were “non-passenger incidents,” meaning they involved people not inside the train at the time, such as motorists hit by trains at level crossings.

“Most non-passenger incidents occur at level crossings, when people disregard safety signs and orders not to cross,” he said.

“They also occur at illegal crossing points that people use because they can’t be bothered to travel a bit further to use a manned and monitored crossing point.”

He added that the most accident-prone crossings along the Jakarta-Bogor railway line were at Pondok Cina, Citayam and Cilebut, as well as the illegal crossing points from Bojong Gede to Citayam and around Pondok Rumput.

“Those areas also have a large number of squatter settlements crowded around the tracks, as well as heavy road traffic,” Suhardono said.

Iwan Irianto, the Bogor Station chief, said that the state railway operator, Kereta Api Indonesia, had set up booms at level crossing and fenced off sections of railway tracks from the road in a bid to prevent such accidents.

“But people just get reckless. You have people who cross even when the boom is down, or you have people cutting down the fences so that they can cross the rails wherever they choose,” he said.

KAI says that only 136 of Jakarta’s 700 level crossings are official and guarded by the company’s staff.

In March, eight people were injured after the Kopaja bus they were in was hit by a train at a level crossing in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta.

The Kopaja driver had allegedly ignored the warning signals and attempted to cross the train tracks as the booms were coming down.

In February, four students were hit and killed by a train at an unguarded railway crossing in Bekasi. Another incident in late January, also in Bekasi, left two teenage brothers dead after a run-in with a train.

A week prior to that incident, a primary school student in Tebet, South Jakarta, was struck by a commuter train and killed.

Last year, 11 people were killed and three were left in critical condition after their van was struck by a train in Tasikmalaya, West Java.


The Jakarta Globe
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