Four additional suspects questioned over train crash
TEN IMPLICATED: An Agency Against Corruption probe focuses on Hualien government officials and contractors accused of bribery, the agency said
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Hualien prosecutors yesterday questioned four more suspects amid an investigation into a fatal train crash on Friday last week, saying that they are focusing on alleged corruption over public work projects.
Fifty people were killed and more than 200 injured when Taroko Express No. 408 crashed into a crane truck that had rolled onto the tracks, derailed and slammed into the walls of the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) in Hualien’s Sioulin Township (秀林).
Hualien lists six suspects in train crash
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Hualien District Prosecutors’ Office has listed six people as suspects in a judicial investigation into a fatal train crash on Friday last week.
Fifty people were killed and more than 200 were injured when the Taroko Express No. 408 train slammed into a crane truck that had slid onto the tracks near the entrance of Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) in Hualien’s Sioulin Township (秀林).
The office also summoned six officials at the Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) Hualien Engineering Section for questioning about alleged illegal business operations and unsafe work conditions by Yi Hsiang Industry Co and Tung Hsin Construction Co, the two main contractors working on the TRA’s safety improvement project near the site of the crash.
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.