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New evidence suggests driver sought to retrieve truck before crash: source
04/08/2021 09:42 PM
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Crane truck driver Lee Yi-hsiang (in yellow) escorted by police as he enters Hualien District Prosecutors Office on Thursday.
Taipei, April 8 (CNA) Newly surfaced evidence suggests that Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), the driver of the crane truck that caused the deadly train crash on April 2, tried but failed to maneuver his truck from where it had got stuck in roadside bushes shortly before the accident, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Thursday that based on new evidence, Lee had tried to extricate the truck with an excavator.
Truck fell onto track less than 2 minutes before fatal train crash
04/06/2021 10:49 PM
Image courtesy of the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board
Taipei, April 6 (CNA) The Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) has deduced that the fatal collision between a Taroko express train and a crane truck on April 2 occurred less than two minutes after the truck fell onto the track near the entrance to the Qingshui Tunnel in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan.
The organization, which is independent of the government, announced at a presentation in Taipei Tuesday the findings of its investigation into the accident that killed 50 people and injured over 200.
Its results were based on data and video chips retrieved from the train s drive recorder and its automatic protection and control and management systems.
KMT calls on Tsai to apologize, Su to resign over deadly train crash
04/05/2021 05:27 PM
The KMT press conference. CNA photo April 5, 2021
Taipei, April 5 (CNA) Taiwan s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) on Monday called on President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to apologize to the public and for Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) to step down, to take responsibility for a deadly train crash last Friday in which at least 50 people died and 202 were injured.
At a press conference, KMT secretary-general Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) said negligence on the part of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is to blame for the latest express train accident as the DPP government learned nothing from the last train incident involving state-owned Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) in 2018.