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Google Street View car involved in ‘incident’ with two buses and a truck

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By Ishbel Macleod, PR and social media consultant

September 14, 2013 | 1 min read

A Google Street View car has been involved in an accident with two public buses and a truck in Bogor, Indonesia.

According to police reports, the car hit the first bus, and when it tried to drive off in a ‘panic’ hit the second bus and the truck.

Vishnu Mahmud, head of communications for Google in Indonesia, told news agency AFP: "We take incidents like this very seriously. We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation.”

This comes six months after Google proudly announced that its plans for a self-driving car were ‘promising’, adding that it had “safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving”.

It is unclear if anyone was hurt at the scene of the accident.

Pictures of the accident were posted on an Indonesian forum by an eyewitness.

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