Jakarta, July 7 (AP): A speeding bus carrying junior high school students and their teachers plunged into a ravine on Indonesia's main island of Java today, leaving 14 dead and 48 hospitalized -- some in critical condition -- police said.

The driver lost control when the bus passed another vehicle and collided with three cars and two motorbikes near the West Java town of Cipanas, and the bus fell into a 20-meter-deep ravine, said Capt Basuki of the local police.

Like many Indonesians, Basuki goes by a single name.

He said that 10 were killed instantly.

Another student died on the way to the hospital and three more in the facility's emergency unit, he said.

"I lost my best friends and teachers," a 14-year-old survivor, Winda, who uses only one name, told El-Shinta radio, "We were celebrating our promotion of class together ... we were joking and happy, but death suddenly separates us."

Many of the injured had broken bones and cuts, and 26, including the driver, were in critical condition, Basuki said.

Basuki said the bus was one of 15 carrying hundreds of junior high school students, their teachers and parents to an outing at the popular tourist destination of Cibodas, in a mountainous part of West Java province.

Cipanas is about 150 kilometers southeast of the capital, Jakarta.