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POST-IDUL FITRI TRAVELERS CAUGHT IN HUGE TRAFFIC JAM ON NAGREG HIGHWAY
Bandung, West Java, Oct. 4 (ANTARA) - A flow of post-Idulfitri travelers headed to Bandung stagnated on the Nagreg highway and became a 7-km queue toward Tasikmalaya at 4 am on Saturday.
The motor vehicles in the flow carried people returning to Bandung and other big cities in West Java after spending the Idul Fitri holidays in their home towns or villages.
Tired of waiting in the snarl up, many of the vehicles eventually left the queue and turned back to take the Malangbong-Sumedang-Bandung route or another route through Garut district.
"It seems all the holiday-makers decided to make the trip back at midnight but they were so numerous, a congestion on the road was inevitable," Brigadier Tonny of the Limbangan Garut Police office said.
In the few days prior to and an the first and second days of Idul Fitri (Oct 1 and 2), many highways and roads in Java were also congested by the vehicles of around 15 million big city residents on their way to their home towns or villages.
Now, the Idul Fitri holidaymakers have begun to return to the big cities and this reverse flow is expected to peak on Saturday and and Sunday (Oct 4 and 5).
Meanwhile, at least 81 people have died in traffic accidents in the past week or the Idul Fitri holiday season in West Java province, a West Java police spokesman, Senior Commissioner Dade Achmad, said here on Friday.
He said the police until now had recorded a total of 85 traffic accidents in the region.
"Besides leaving 81 people dead, the accidents also caused serious injuries to many people, and material damage estimated at hundreds of million rupiahs," he said.
He said the number of accidents was almost the same as last year.
The motor vehicles in the flow carried people returning to Bandung and other big cities in West Java after spending the Idul Fitri holidays in their home towns or villages.
Tired of waiting in the snarl up, many of the vehicles eventually left the queue and turned back to take the Malangbong-Sumedang-Bandung route or another route through Garut district.
"It seems all the holiday-makers decided to make the trip back at midnight but they were so numerous, a congestion on the road was inevitable," Brigadier Tonny of the Limbangan Garut Police office said.
In the few days prior to and an the first and second days of Idul Fitri (Oct 1 and 2), many highways and roads in Java were also congested by the vehicles of around 15 million big city residents on their way to their home towns or villages.
Now, the Idul Fitri holidaymakers have begun to return to the big cities and this reverse flow is expected to peak on Saturday and and Sunday (Oct 4 and 5).
Meanwhile, at least 81 people have died in traffic accidents in the past week or the Idul Fitri holiday season in West Java province, a West Java police spokesman, Senior Commissioner Dade Achmad, said here on Friday.
He said the police until now had recorded a total of 85 traffic accidents in the region.
"Besides leaving 81 people dead, the accidents also caused serious injuries to many people, and material damage estimated at hundreds of million rupiahs," he said.
He said the number of accidents was almost the same as last year.
