Large motor vehicles not equipped with lateral protection devices are to incur fines of NT$12,000 to NT$24,000 after the legislature’s Transportation Committee gave preliminary approval to amendments to the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act (道路交通管理處罰條例).
The existing act requires large passenger buses and cargo trucks to have dashboard cameras and auxiliary visual devices.
However, motorcyclists often get entangled in the wheels of large vehicles during collisions, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) said, adding that such accidents happen daily in Taiwan.
As a prevention measure, the amended act would mandate that large buses and trucks have lateral protection devices.
KMT Legislator