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Pertamina fuel truck explodes in road accident, one dead
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A fuel truck belonging to state oil and gas company Pertamina collides with a private car on a toll road in Sidoarjo, East Java , on Sept. 8. The accident caused an explosion, killing one person in the private vehicle. (Courtesy of East Java Police/File)
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n accident involving a Pertamina fuel truck and a private car caused a large fire at the 33-kilometer point of the Porong toll road in Sidoarjo, East Java, killing one on Thursday.
A traffic police officer with the East Java Police, Adj. Sr. Comr. Harri Nugroho, said the documents in the Toyota Avanza car showed the owner was a Krembangan resident in Surabaya.
One person in the Avanza was killed while the driver of the fuel truck is at large.
“The license plate number of the fuel truck is L 1262 WF,” he said as quoted by kompas.com.
The accident caused traffic to back up on the toll road.
“An accident occurred involving a fuel truck in Sidoarjo going toward Porong at 8:30 a.m. The truck was delivering 32,000 liters of Pertamax to a fuel terminal in Malang [East Java],” said Heppy Wulansari, area manager communication and relations at Pertamina of East Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara. (evi)
