JAKARTA, twenty second December, 2025 (WAM) — A passenger bus crash killed a minimum of 16 folks on Indonesia’s important island of Java simply after midnight Monday, officers mentioned.
The bus carrying 34 folks misplaced management on a toll highway and struck a concrete barrier earlier than rolling onto its facet, mentioned Budiono, a search and rescue company chief who goes by a single identify like many Indonesians.
The inter-province bus was travelling from the capital Jakarta to the nation’s historic royal metropolis of Yogyakarta when it overturned whereas coming into a curved exit ramp on the Krapyak tollway in Central Java’s Semarang metropolis, he mentioned.
“The forceful impression threw a number of passengers and left them trapped in opposition to the bus physique,” Budiono mentioned.
Witnesses instructed authorities the bus was travelling at excessive velocity earlier than the motive force misplaced management.
