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The Taiwan Transportation Safety Board concluded in June 2024 that the primary reasons for the collapse were a failure to ensure proper operation of a tower crane and a lack of clear measures for restricting or prohibiting construction on either side of Taichung Metro tracks. [13]
On 2 April 2021, at 09:28 NST (01:28 UTC), a Taroko Express train operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) derailed at the north entrance of Qingshui Tunnel in Heren Section, Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan, killing 49 people and injuring at least two others, making it the deadliest railway accident in Taiwan in terms of confirmed deaths.
A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel, killing at least 48 passengers in the island's worst rail disaster in four decades. ... 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...
As of 9:35 p.m. (1335 GMT), all 366 passengers onboard - including the dead and injured - had been evacuated or removed from the wreckage, the Taiwan Railways Administration said. Hundreds of ...
Red timestamp is time of crash, other timestamps are scheduled departures [4] On 21 October 2018, a passenger train derailed in Yilan County , Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] At the time, it was Taiwan's deadliest rail accident since a collision near Miaoli in 1991 that killed 30 people.
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Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 2,025 kilometres (1,258 mi) (as of 2015) of railway networks. [2] Though no longer as dominant as it once was, rail transport is an extremely important form of transportation in Taiwan due to high population density, especially along the densely populated western corridor.
The train’s engineer and conductor were uninjured in the crash. The driver’s death is the 35th traffic fatality of the year, compared to 22 fatalities at this time last year.