A final report on the deadly Taroko Express crash last year by the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board yesterday recommended limiting standing passengers who are at greater risk of being injured in an accident.
The number of standing passengers injured when Taroko Express No. 408 crashed on April 2 last year was seven times greater than the number of seated passengers who were injured, the board said.
The majority of those injured were in cars 7 and 8 the two frontmost cars and most of those injured were standing at the time of the accident, chief investigator Lin Pei-da (林沛達) told
Taipei, May 10 (CNA) Unprofessional worksite practices and unclear contract stipulations were among a number of failures surrounding a train crash that killed 49 and injured 213 in April last year, the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) said Tuesday.
DANGEROUS: The number of standing passengers injured in a train crash last year was seven times greater than the number of seated passengers, the report saidBy Cheng Wei-chi and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of National Defense yesterday said that it opposes an amendment to the Transportation Occurrence Investigation Act (運輸事故調查法) that would authorize the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) to investigate military aircraft crashes.
Chinese Nationalist Party Legislator Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) and the New Power Party caucus proposed the amendment due to a series of military aircraft crashes over the past few years.
One of the most catastrophic incidents was when a UH-60 Black Hawk crashed in January 2020, killing then-chief of the general staff Shen I-ming (沈一鳴) and seven other senior military officials.
The amendment, which would enable impartial third parties such
The first two railway track inspectors recruited last year by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications began their seven-week training yesterday.
The inspectors are to be responsible for overseeing the safety of the operation of railway tracks upon completion of their training.
Following the example of the airline industry, the bureau created 42 vacancies for the position, which are still open to applications, to improve railway supervision, Railway Bureau Deputy Director-General Yang Cheng-chun (楊正君) said.
A ceremony was held yesterday morning at National Taipei University of Technology to mark the beginning of the training and a milestone in railway supervision.
The bureau has commissioned