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Six people died yesterday when a tour bus carrying 45 passengers crashed into the side of a mountain along the Suhua Highway.
Ten people were severely injured and five had minor injuries.
The Yilan County Fire Department said that it received a report of the accident at 4:29pm, adding that it is still investigating the cause.
The bus had been manufactured in January 2018 and had passed its regular inspection this year, the Directorate-General of Highways said.
The driver, surnamed Yu (游), had obtained his license for large vehicles on March 30 last year, it added.
Yu said that the brakes were not working.
New Taipei
Two TRA maintenance staff killed by train, one hurt
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Two Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) maintenance workers were killed and one was injured yesterday morning after being hit by a power maintenance train at Haiduan Station in Taitung County.
The casualties were a 48-year-old man surnamed Pan (潘) and a 55-year-old man surnamed Liu (劉), both of whom worked at the railway maintenance division in Chihshang Township (池上). Another worker surnamed Wang (王), 36, was injured and treated at the Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taitung.
The incident happened at 8:35am, when a power maintenance train which left Yuli Township (玉里) and was traveling south to Taitung Station hit two maintenance workers at a railway switch at Haiduan Station, the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board said.
Prosecutors investigating cause of TRA crash that killed 2, injured 1
02/23/2021 10:23 PM
Photo courtesy of the TRA
Taitung, Feb. 23 (CNA) The Taitung District Prosecutors Office and the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) said Tuesday that they had begun investigating the cause of an accident earlier that day in which a Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) maintenance car slammed into a group of workers on the tracks, killing two and injuring one, near Haiduan Station.
At around 8:35 a.m., the TRA maintenance car crashed into three of a group of four workers carrying out track repairs, killing two men a 55-year-old surnamed Liu (劉) and a 49-year-old surnamed Pan as well as also injuring a third, surnamed Wang (王).