Camelia

A few months ago, I wrote on my blog about a reckless motorbiker who hit my car and how they reacted badly.

This afternoon, my fiancée’s father injured badly after being hit by a truck.

He rode a bicycle heading to the church nearby his house in jalan Kartini Depok. He was standing near by the separator waiting to cross the busy traffic when a yellow truck hit him from his back and broke one of his legs.  

People around the location helped him and took him to the nearest hospital. But nobody noticed that the truck driver ran away and abandoned the fact that he had just injured Okta’s father badly.

When the accident happened, Okta’s 5 years old-nephew coincidently passing by the same road. He cried and told his Mommy at home “Eyang was hit by a truck!” He was so traumatize by the accident that he kept on crying for some time.

Several traffic accidents recently have made me come to two conclusions: so many people are incapable of being responsible on the road. Secondly, when you optimistically report it to the police, they reacted passively by only making a report letter.

The main essence: human soul is not worthy for this kind of people.

The police who accepted the report said they could not do much on it, because it is hard to identify the truck (while at the police station I saw two big monitors showing the traffic of several quarters at Depok and one of it was screening a quarter just 20 meters away from the accident location).

When I said that, the police responded “Well, I don’t know whether they have the recording or not.” (Instead of trying to check it out first).

“It is hard to find the truck driver, but we can help you to claim for Jasamarga insurance so you can ask them to reimburse some of the hospital payment,” he added. We don’t really care about the insurance since it is not really significant, but we do care to find the driver and ask him to show goodwill on this matter.

After the accident, Okta’s family member has to prepare enough budget to pay for the down payment that is no less then 10 millions rupiah (US$1,000).  The total of the hospital bill may increase up to 20 millions rupiah by the end of medication.

What a day, after getting upset of a reckless and irresponsible truck driver who made the problem, we need to deal with unenthusiastic policemen who probably take it lightly as an ordinary thing and dig the saving to pay for the hospital.   

And what happened to the truck driver? By now, probably he’s sitting on the chair while having a cup of coffee and think ‘Thank God I can escape!’