In this image taken from video, Lee Yi-hsiang, the driver of the truck that caused the train accident on April 2, offers a public apology as he is led by police on April 4 in Hualien, Taiwan. (EBC via AP)
TAIPEI The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan s worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, apologized in tears while being led away from his home by police on Sunday. The unmanned truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center.
An investigation is underway as to how exactly Lee Yi-Hsiang s vehicle slid down onto the tracks Friday from a nearby construction site on the mountainous coast of eastern Hualien county. The truck was hit by a passenger train carrying 494 people, which derailed just before entering a tunnel, crushing many passengers inside the mangled train carriages.
Owner of truck that caused Taiwan’s deadly train collision apologizes tearfully Jami Ganz
The man who owned the unmanned construction truck which on Friday slid onto train tracks, causing a derailment in Taiwan that killed nearly 50 people and injured almost 200, apologized tearfully Sunday.
Lee Yi-Hsiang spoke out while police escorted him from his residence in Hualien, near the site of the fatal accident, The Associated Press reports.
“I have caused a serious accident on the Taiwan Railway Administrations’ Taroko train number 480 this year’s Tomb Sweeping Holidays, causing deaths and injuries, to this I express my remorse and my sincerest apologies,” said Lee, also the manager of the construction site from which the vehicle slid down.
The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan s worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, has apologised in tears while being led away from his home by police.
The unmanned truck s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government s disaster relief centre.
An investigation is underway as to how exactly Lee Yi-Hsiang s vehicle slid down onto the tracks on Friday from a nearby construction site on the mountainous coast of eastern Hualien county.
Lee Yi-hsiang, the driver of the truck that caused the train accident, offers a public apology as he is led by police in Hualien, Taiwan. (AP)
Truck Owner Apologizes After Taiwan Railway Crash Kills 48 By Huizhong Wu | April 5, 2021
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan’s worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, apologized in tears while being led away from his home by police on Sunday. The unmanned truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center.
An investigation is underway as to how exactly Lee Yi-Hsiang’s vehicle slid down onto the tracks Friday from a nearby construction site on the mountainous coast of eastern Hualien county. The truck was hit by a passenger train carrying 494 people, which derailed just before entering a tunnel, crushing many passengers inside the mangled train carriages.
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The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan’s worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, apologized in tears while being led away from his home by police on Sunday. The unmanned truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center.
An investigation is underway as to how exactly Lee Yi-Hsiang’s vehicle slid down onto the tracks Friday from a nearby construction site on the mountainous coast of eastern Hualien county. The truck was hit by a passenger train carrying 494 people, which derailed just before entering a tunnel, crushing many passengers inside the mangled train carriages.