Taroko Express Crash: Friends, family decry ‘lenient’ derailment charges
PREVENTABLE: One woman said that a charge of negligence resulting in death was not enough, as rail officials should have been called as soon as the truck slid onto the tracks
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Survivors and friends and family members of people who died in April 2’s train crash yesterday criticized the indictment of seven people over their alleged involvement in the incident as too lenient.
The Hualien District Prosecutors’ Office on Friday charged seven people over the crash, in which 49 people were killed and more than 200 were injured.
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2021/04/08 15:28 Ah-Hao (second from left) being escorted by police. Ah-Hao (second from left) being escorted by police. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A Vietnamese migrant worker who had been missing for five years was arrested Wednesday (April 7) after surveillance camera footage revealed he was sitting in the crane truck that caused the deadly Hualien train derailment last week. A crane truck driven by contractor Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥) was identified as the obstacle that Taroko Express No. 408 train collided with before derailing as it entered into a tunnel, killing 50 and injuring 211 on April 2. According to a preliminary investigation, Lee s truck became snagged in bushes that morning as it was going down an incline. Its engine then stalled, and the vehicle slid down until it came to a stop on the tracks 20 meters below, a little over a minute before the train arrived.
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.
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Hualien District Prosecutor Chou Fang-yi talks to reporters in Hualien County yesterday.
Photo: CNA 2021/04/10 03:00
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Hualien District Prosecutorsâ 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
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