The collision of the Trans Utama bus and the Ardiansyah bus on the Bengkak Village highway, Wongsorejo District, it didn't make the passengers traumatized. Even though it hurts, Mino Warga High School students, Palembang, South Sumatra, it will still continue the journey to Bali.
BELINDA Priska lies down with occasional pain in the emergency room at the Blambangan Hospital. His right hand keeps fiddling with Blackberry. With that cell phone in her hand, once in a while he contacts someone who might be his parents or family. While communicating with that cell phone, Belinda who was initially cheerful suddenly her eyes flushed. Soon, details of tears flowed from the two eyelids.
While wiping the beads that have wet his cheeks, he stuttered. The teenager with shoulder-length hair hurriedly got up and sat down when the medics approached him. While wiping her tears that are still stuck to her cheeks, Mino Warga high school class IX student, Palembang, it's trying to smile at the nurse. "I'm good, how come," he said with a smile.
Soon, Belinda rushed down from the treatment area and walked to meet her two friends who were sitting in front of the ER. "At the time of the collision we were all sleeping, So I don't know the exact time it happened,” he said in the affirmation of two of his friends. Belinda and two of her friends said, knowing the bus he was traveling in had a collision when he woke up At that time, their position has fallen from the seat.
Along with it, number of passengers 45 the person on the bus also woke up. "I woke up already sick everything feels," he said. While looking at his two friends, Belinda recounts the atmosphere in the bus at the time of the collision. Almost all the friends on the bus screamed and cried when they woke up. Especially, when you see the front of the bus that has been destroyed. “The one who was injured the most happened to be sitting in the front,' he said as he took his seat on seat number five from the front.
The Mino Warga SMA tour group bus that had the accident was the number two bus out of five group buses that would travel to Bali.. Even though I had an accident, the group will still go to Bali. "It's done", we have to go to Bali, already here,"said Belinda. Belinda and Mino Warga High School students have been wanting to visit the Island of the Gods for a long time. So that, even though his condition is not healthy because he just had an accident, they keep forcing themselves to go.
"Earlier we saw the ships going to Bali, and Bali has also been seen,said one of Belinda's friends. The attitude of Belinda and her friends who wanted to stay in Bali was also conveyed to the Principal of SMA Mino Warga, Yus Rizal. When visiting students who are victims of collisions, Yus Rizal agreed to send the victims to Bali. "Those with minor injuries still go to Bali", one who has to be hospitalized will be waited on by a teacher,"explained Yus Rizal.
Most of the passengers on the PO Trans Utama bus only suffered minor injuries, even though the bus driver is Ujang Tompel, 40, from Bandung, West Java, died with serious injuries. However, This condition is different from Ardiansyah's bus passengers. “We just got off the ship,"said Slamet Sugianto, bus driver Ardiansyah. A number of Ardiansyah bus passengers who had just made a pilgrimage to the graves of the seven guardians in Bali were not asleep when the collision occurred.
Nevertheless, the passengers could only surrender when the bus they were traveling in was hit by a Trans Utama bus that was gliding at high speed from the front.. The number of passengers on the PO Ardiansyah bus is quite large, that is 58 person. They are a religious tourism group from Anggaswangi Village, Sukodono District, Si doarjo. Most of the passengers on the bus were seriously injured and two of them died, namely Suroso, bus kernet, and Maratus Sayidah Shofi a, 12.
The head of a religious tour group who is also a village modin, Imam Basori, suffered serious injuries. Basori who was sitting on the seat in front of him had his leg crushed until it broke. "Shofia who died was Mr. Basori's son.","whispered one of the officers at the Blam Bangan Hospital. In the group that had the accident, Basori not only brought his daughter but also his wife. Basori's wife also suffered serious injuries and was treated at the Blambangan Hospital. "Mr. Basori can't be operated on because his sugar content is high,"said the hospital officer. (radar)
