Petarukan train collision
{{Short description|2010 train crash in Central Java, Indonesia}}
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| date = 2 October 2010
| time = 03:00 local time (20:00, 1 October UTC.)
| location = Petarukan
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| type = Rear-end collision
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The Petarukan train collision occurred on 2 October 2010, at Petarukan, in Pemalang Regency of Central Java, Indonesia, when two intercity trains collided with each other. Thirty-six people died as a result of the accident, and 50 people were reported injured.
Accident
At 3:00am local time on 2 October 2010, an Argo Bromo Anggrek executive train travelling from Jakarta to Surabaya ran into the rear of a Senja Utama Semarang business train at Petarukan, Pemalang{{cite web |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/crew-says-train-changes-line.html |title=Crew says Argobromo train changes line |publisher=The Jakarta Post |accessdate=2 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003123113/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/crew-says-train-changes-line.html |archivedate=3 October 2010 }} a city on the north coast of central Java.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/01/714865/dozens-killed-in-indonesian-train.html |title=Indonesian train crash kills at least 36 |publisher=News Observer |accessdate=2 October 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} The Argo Bromo executive train had 336 passengers on board, while the Senja Utama Semarang business train was bound for Semarang and carrying 663 passengers. The Senja Utama Semarang train was waiting for an oncoming train at Petarukan station because of a single track section ahead. The Argo Bromo Anggrek train passed a signal at danger and eventually rear-ended the waiting train.{{cite web |url=http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_railway/Report/baru/2010/Laporan%20Akhir%20KNKT-10-10-08-02%E2%80%93A.pdf |title=Laporan Ahkir KNKT-10-10-08-02-A |publisher=Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi |format=PDF |language=id |access-date=7 June 2021}} Three carriages derailed and overturned, 36 people were reported to have been killed and 50 injured,{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23884225-train-crash-death-toll-rises-to-43.do |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505125650/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23884225-train-crash-death-toll-rises-to-43.do |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Train crash death toll rises to 43 |publisher=Evening Standard |accessdate=2 October 2010 }} with the death toll expected to rise.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11458085 |title=Train crash in central Indonesia kills at least 28 |publisher=BBC News Online |date=2 October 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/many-passengers-trapped-inside-train-wreckage.html |title=Many passengers trapped inside train wreckage |publisher=The Jakarta Post |accessdate=2 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003123234/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/many-passengers-trapped-inside-train-wreckage.html |archivedate=3 October 2010 }} The accident was the deadliest in Indonesia since the Bintaro train crash on 19 October 1987, which killed 156 people.{{cite web|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/death-toll-train-crash-hits-33.html |title=Death toll from train crash hits 33 |publisher=The Jakarta Post |accessdate=2 October 2010}}
At around the same time, a second crash in Surakarta (Solo) killed a single person when an economy train was grazed in the rear by an express train.{{cite web|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/another-train-crash-kills-one.html|title=Another train crash kills one|publisher=The Jakarta Post|date=2 October 2010|accessdate=2 October 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003123048/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/10/02/another-train-crash-kills-one.html|archivedate=3 October 2010}}
Reaction
A spokesman for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that "The President has instructed a sanction against whoever was responsible for the accident."{{cite news|title=President orders sanction on those responsible for train accident|url=http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/1286011238/president-orders-sanction-on-those-responsible-for-train-accident|accessdate=2 October 2010|newspaper=ANTARA News|date=2 October 2010}}
Director General of Railway Affairs at the Ministry of Transportation Tunjung Inderawan offered apologies for the two incidents, saying that "I apologize to the families of all the victims of the train accidents."{{cite news|title=Top railway official apologizes for train accidents|url=http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/1286010741/top-railway-official-apologizes-for-train-accidents|accessdate=2 October 2010|newspaper=ANTARA News|date=2 October 2010 }}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Indonesia|Trains}}
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11458407 Photographs of the accident]
{{2010 railway accidents}}
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Category:Accidents and incidents involving Kereta Api Indonesia
Category:Railway accidents in 2010
Category:Train collisions in Indonesia