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News:
Christmas break sees more than 50 die in road accidents

Dozens of road accidents over the Christmas break have left more than 50 people dead since
holiday exodus began last week.
The highest death toll was recorded in an accident in South Sumatra on Monday evening that
saw a bus plunge into a ravine in the province’s Pagar Alam district, killing 31 people and
injuring 13 others.
The bus, which left Bengkulu province for Palembang, carried dozens of passengers when it
suddenly careered into an 80-meter ravine under an uphill road with sharp declines and fell into
Lematang River.
Passengers who survived the accident recounted that they woke up to darkness and coldness as
river water crept inside the partially submerged bus.

Aldi Pratama, 18, recalled bashing his head on the window next to his seat in his attempt to break
out of the sinking bus. He was stuck on one side of the bus with seven other survivors, he said.

“We called out for help for about one hour. People eventually came and evacuated us [from
inside the bus] using rubber tires,” Aldi said at Basemah Hospital in South Sumatra.

Ridwan, another survivor, said he woke up to a scream coming from a female passenger
moments before the bus plunged and submerged into the river.

“I can’t recall how I got out of the bus. I just called out for help for about an hour. Maybe it was
fate that I survived,” said Ridwan, who rode the bus to visit his family’s home in Banyuasin,
South Sumatra.
As of Wednesday, authorities have retrieved 31 dead bodies following two days of search and
rescue operations in the area, Palembang Search and Rescue Agency official Benteng Telau said
as reported by Antara.

According to the Pagar Alam Police, the bus had around 50 people on board the night of the
accident.

The dead victims and the injured victims have been taken to Pagaralam's Basemah General
Hospital. Twenty-five dead bodies were handed over to their families on Wednesday.

"There is a possibility that the number of victims will increase," Benteng said.

Pagar Alam Police spokesperson chief Brig. Paino said the U-shaped Lematang route hairpin
where the tragedy took place had seen its fair share of similar accidents.

Summary:
Sometimes holiday is time to back to hometown or just go to some place for refreshing. And it
makes the road being crowded and have long traffic jam. And also in the holiday there’s so many
accidents on the road. The causes could be because of the bad road, or even driver’s fault. This
time, in the Christmas there were at least 50 people die in road accidents. Even this accident was
happened in the past, in the same place.

Comment:
We must make a sure that our holiday can be fun and no accident in there. We must check if the
transportation we take is the best one, or at least guaranteed for prevent the accident. And the
government should take an action if there is a damaged road.