{"id":17167,"date":"2026-07-14T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=17167"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:13:08","slug":"truck-carrying-wedding-guests-hit-on-indonesia-highway-killing-13-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=17167","title":{"rendered":"Truck carrying wedding guests hit on Indonesia highway, killing 13, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p><em>Jakarta, Indonesia<\/em> \u2014 A pickup truck carrying wedding guests was crushed between two trucks on a busy highway on Indonesia&#8217;s main island of Java, killing 13 people and injuring five others, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred Sunday afternoon on the northern coastal highway near the village of Kiajaran Kulon in Indramayu regency as the group was returning home after attending a wedding in neighboring Parean village, local traffic police chief Undang Syarif Hidayat said. <\/p>\n<p>He said the victims were traveling in an open-bed pickup truck when the vehicle slowed and stopped near a median opening to make a U-turn on the highway when it was struck from behind by a wing-box truck traveling in the same direction.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/07\/13\/4fd37858-41bd-4d52-9b54-92389e12458e\/thumbnail\/620x413\/f07d68210f8be51c46900cc1a67f2480\/ap26194285277454.jpg#\" alt=\"Indonesia Truck Crash \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/07\/13\/4fd37858-41bd-4d52-9b54-92389e12458e\/thumbnail\/620x413\/f07d68210f8be51c46900cc1a67f2480\/ap26194285277454.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/07\/13\/4fd37858-41bd-4d52-9b54-92389e12458e\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/133d65006fb717dff1d45713d527a89c\/ap26194285277454.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The wreckage of vehicles involved in a crash are parked on a the side of a highway in Indramayu, Indonesia, on July 13, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP Photo<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The impact pushed the pickup into the opposite lane, where it was hit again by another truck,&#8221; Hidayat said. &#8220;The powerful collision hurled more than a dozen people from the pickup truck onto the highway.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Five survivors remained hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to serious, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Deadly traffic accidents are common in Indonesia, where overloaded vehicles, inadequate road safety measures and poor compliance with traffic regulations frequently contribute to fatal crashes.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p> Truck carrying wedding guests hit on Indonesia highway, killing 13, police say<br \/>\n<br \/>#Truck #carrying #wedding #guests #hit #Indonesia #highway #killing #police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta, Indonesia \u2014 A pickup truck carrying wedding guests was crushed between two trucks on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[748,11744,5736,1280,7277,295,2548,2566,11257],"class_list":["post-17167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-carrying","tag-guests","tag-highway","tag-hit","tag-indonesia","tag-killing","tag-police","tag-truck","tag-wedding"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454.jpg",1200,630,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ap26194285277454-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}