Jakarta: The provincial traffic police has announced that 3,250 people died from traffic accidents in West Java in 2019 and that many of the collisions took place on toll roads.
West Java Police traffic director Sr Comr Eddy Djuanedi said the province had seen a total of 7,217 traffic accidents in 2019, an increase of 320 cases or of 4.64% from last year.The number of deaths from road accidents nationwide for 2019, according to the data released by the National Police headquarters, was 23,530.Traffic accidents on toll roads, according to Eddy, contributed a great deal to the figure.
Based on the data, West Java Police chief Insp Gen Rudi Sufahriadi recommended that toll management build permanent dividers. “Our analysis shows that this is the point where drivers feel exhausted during the journey from the west and the east, ” said Eddy, suggesting that there should be “speed bump” every kilometre on that stretch of road.
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