Experts credit stricter building codes, extensive evacuation, and disaster drills that begin in primary school, a honed disaster response strategy – and a fair amount of luck – for the low death toll Wednesday’s quake.
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2021/04/07 12:44 (MOTC photo) (MOTC photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The eighth and final car from the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) train that suffered a deadly derailment after colliding with a construction vehicle was finally extricated from a tunnel Tuesday evening (April 6). At 9:28 a.m. on Friday (April 2), the Taroko Express No. 408, going from New Taipei s Shulin to Taitung, suddenly derailed as it passed through the Qingshui Tunnel in Hualien County, killing 50 and injuring 211. A preliminary investigation has found that the accident occurred after a construction crane truck had fallen onto the tracks a little over a minute before the train smashed into it at 126 kilometers per hour.