Car plunges from 8th floor

JAKARTA – A car plunged from a parking lot on the eighth floor of a building in the Indonesian capital yesterday killing the driver who had dozed off with his foot on the accelerator, a security guard at the building said.

The driver, who was waiting for his employer, crashed through the parking lot’s metal railing after he accidentally stepped on the accelerator with the engine running, the guard said. The vehicle landed on a parked car.In a similar accident last year a family of three was killed when their car plunged from the sixth floor of a shopping mall’s parking lot in south Jakarta.Nampa ReutersThe vehicle landed on a parked car.In a similar accident last year a family of three was killed when their car plunged from the sixth floor of a shopping mall’s parking lot in south Jakarta.Nampa Reuters