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2003 East Java Bus Crash
On 8 October 2003, a tour bus carrying mostly schoolchildren collided with two trucks near Situbondo, East Java, killing 54 people. The crash was also called Paiton bus crash or Paiton tragedy due to its location near Paiton Power Station, Paiton thermal power station. The bus was returning students to Yapemda Vocational High School in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta after a week-long trip to the Indonesian island of Bali. It was driving at night on a busy two-lane highway when it was hit head-on by a truck on the wrong side of the road. A delivery truck then collided with the bus from behind and the wreckage burst into flames. Passengers could not open the exit doors which had been jammed shut in the collision. Forty-nine schoolgirls, two schoolboys, two teachers, and a tour guide died. The bus driver and his assistant were badly injured. Police officials said it was the deadliest transport accident that year. The truck driver and his assistant fled the scene. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Situbondo
Situbondo Regency is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' of East Java province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 1,638.50 km2, and had a population of 647,619 at the 2010 Census and 685,967 at the 2020 Census. It is located in east end of Java before Banyuwangi. The administrative centre is Situbondo, a small town within the regency. One of the famous tourist sites is Baluran National Park. Administrative districts The Regency is divided into seventeen districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their population totals from the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the location of the district headquarters and the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district. Climate Situbondo has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) with heavy rainfall from December to March and moderate to little rainfall from April to November. History Demographic Information Future Proj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |