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Truck s dashboard camera found at Taiwan train crash site
Investigators inspect the wreckage of a yellow truck that hit the train which derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan, on April 3, 2021.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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Premier strategizes as train deaths rise
FLIGHT RISK? The driver of the truck that slid onto the tracks, causing the crash, was released on NT$500,000 bail, but prosecutors have requested that he be detained
By Lee Hsin-fang
and Jason Pan / Staff reporters, with CNA
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday listed three priorities in response to the deadliest accident involving a Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) train in the past 40 years: rescuing the injured, clearing the single-track tunnel and assisting the families of the victims.
Taroko Express No. 408, traveling from New Taipei City to Taitung on Friday morning, derailed as it entered the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) in Hualien’s Sioulin Township (秀林).
Driver of truck involved in deadly train crash released on bail
04/03/2021 08:23 PM
TRA contractor Lee Yi-hsiang (right) leaves the court building after posting bail. CNA photo April 3, 2021
Taipei, April 3 (CNA) The driver of the crane truck that fell onto a train track in Hualien County on Friday, causing a deadly train crash, was released on bail Saturday.
Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), who had parked the truck on a hill above the southbound track of the Taiwan Railways Administration s (TRA s) east coast mainline, was granted bail of NT$500,000 (US$17,516.21) by the Hualien District Court after being held for questioning by police and prosecutors since Friday afternoon.
Chen Ying-mei receives final sentence
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a seven-year jail sentence for corruption for Hualien County Councilor Chen Ying-mei (陳英妹) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in the final verdict in the case, which began in 2010.
Chen, 71, was also deprived of her civil rights for five years, and prohibited from running for office.
Chen, from the Amis Lacihakan Community in Rueisui Township (瑞穗), has been a councilor since 2005.
The case involved civic projects in 2006 and 2007 public tenders for government buildings and an Aboriginal cultural hall in Jian Township (吉安), and a procurement program for a school in Guangfu Township (光復), with a total budget of NT$8 million (US$281,027 at the current exchange rate).