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Dashcam memory cards help reconstruct 98% of moments before Taiwan train crash
An aerial view shows workers checking damaged carriages at the site of a derailed train accident in Hualien, on April 6, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
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Suspect ID d at scene of Taiwan s worst train derailment in decades
April 7, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Workers remove a derailed train from a tunnel in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan on March 6, 2021. (Central News Agency/ Kyodo) TAIPEI (Kyodo) A man held on suspicion of causing Taiwan s worst train derailment in seven decades was positively identified as being at the scene of the accident, authorities said on Tuesday. Wang Kwo-tsai, deputy minister of transportation and communications, confirmed that the suspect, Lee Yi-hsiang, is the man seen in a photograph, believed to have been taken by a survivor of the accident, standing on top of a hill looking down at the accident with other spectators, whose identities have yet to be confirmed.
The truck that caused Taiwan’s worst train crash in decades was on the line for just over a minute before it was struck, officials have said, as salvage teams worked to remove the most damaged carriages.
At least 50 people were killed and more than 210 were injured in Friday’s crash, which sent a packed eight-car train hurtling into the sides of a narrow tunnel near the eastern coastal city of Hualien.
Investigators said on Tuesday that the Taroko Express hit a railway maintenance truck on the line in a “head-on collision” moments before it entered the tunnel.
The vehicle slipped down a steep embankment and prosecutors are working to determine whether the driver failed to secure the parking brake or if the truck suffered a mechanical failure.