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Police record 12% drop in traffic accidents during 'mudik' 2024
The number of traffic accidents and fatalities appears to have declined over the last two years, with a significant drop in both figures in the week leading up to Idul Fitri this year.
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Cars and trucks wait on April 7, 2024 in a line stretching several kilometers for their turn to board ships headed to Sumatra at Merak Port in Cilegon, Banten, as millions of Indonesian Muslims travel during the annual tradition of ‘mudik’ (exodus) to celebrate Idul Fitri in their hometowns. (Reuters/Yuddy Cahya Budiman)
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he National Police have so far recorded a drop of 12 percent in traffic accidents over the annual tradition of mudik (exodus) this year compared to previous years, with data released on Thursday showing a total of 1,581 such incidents during the period. In comparison, 1,793 accidents were recorded in the week leading up to Idul Fitri last year.
On top of that, the number of fatality also declined slightly by 0.04 percent.
Major accidents during this year’s holiday include a multi-vehicle crash on Monday involving a minibus, an SUV and a bus at Kilometer Marker (KM) 58 of the busy Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road in West Java that killed at least 12 people. The accident occurred when the minibus was traveling down a temporary lane in a counterflow system, prompting the police to evaluate the traffic management policy.
Over the weekend, a traffic jam reportedly spanning more than 10 kilometers formed on the highway leading to Banten’s Merak Port, a key freight and ferry port for ships crossing the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. However, the congestion had eased by Monday.
