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Taxi driver dies while driving on Jakarta toll road
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The parking lot at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten
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taxi driver reportedly died while driving on the Sedyatmo toll road in West Jakarta on Tuesday, the fourth such case reported in the media in two months.
Kalideres Police chief Comr. Effendi said on Tuesday said that the driver with the Gading Taxi company, identified as 55-year-old Tamrin, was a resident of Kampung Ranca Gede in Tangerang, Banten
“According to eyewitness accounts, the victim was driving the taxi from Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Tangerang heading to Jakarta,” Effendi said in a written statement.
“While driving his passengers, Tamrin slowed the car into the left lane of the toll road until the car was brought to a stop. The witnesses tried to alert the driver, but he was already unconscious,” Effendi said.
The victim was declared dead and his body was taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital for an autopsy.
The police found no signs of violence on the victim’s body and suspect the victim died of natural causes.
Several reports have emerged recently of drivers being found dead on Jakarta roads. On April 27, an employee of a travel agency was found dead in a parked car, with the engine running, at Soekarno-Hatta airport’s Terminal 1C.
Another man, identified as Suyono, was found dead in the driver’s seat of a car on the Tanjung Barat overpass in South Jakarta on April 24. The man had allegedly died of exhaustion while driving.
Earlier on April 8, a Blue Bird taxi driver, identified as Aliudin, was found dead, apparently while parking his car, at Kalideres Mall in West Jakarta. (ami)
