The suspicion falls on the failure of the brakes and the safety in the disaster of a train in Taiwan
The suspicion falls on the failure of the brakes and the safety in the disaster of a train in Taiwan
A critical safety system may not have been working in a train that crashed in Taiwan on Sunday, killing 18 people and wounding 187 others, according to the general director of the Railway Administration of Taiwan.
Lu Chieh-shen said he suspected the train driver had switched off his automatic train protection system, which automatically applies the brake when a train exceeds the speed limit, the Taiwan Central News Agency reported Monday. However, Mr. Lu stressed in the interview that it was too early to know for sure what had caused the worst rail disaster on the island in almost three decades.
The express train from Shulin in the city of New Taipei to Taitung derailed in Yilan County approximately 40 miles south of Taipei at 4.50 p.m. local time. A video posted online by Taiwanese media appeared to show the train, with 366 people on board, approaching Xinma station at high speed before turning over when it hit a sharp turn, sending sparks and clouds of debris. Four of the eight wagons of the train overturned in the accident.
A crane lifts a damaged truck of the Puyuma express train in Yilan, Taiwan, on October 22.
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On Monday night, Wu Tze-cheng, a government minister who oversaw a preliminary investigation into the accident, said speed was the culprit, according to the Central News Agency, with the train traveling at about 87 miles per hour in an area of 47 miles per hour. . Mr. Wu said it was not yet clear why the train had gone so fast.
The train involved only had an official maximum speed of just over 80 miles per hour, according to the railways administration. A survivor of the accident told the Central News Agency that the driver had braked sharply several times in the run-up to the accident and that the train seemed to be traveling unusually fast, while another passenger remembered hearing strange sounds and seeing confusing symbols on the screen of train information.
The driver, who survived the accident with serious injuries, had reported a problem with the train's pressure system shortly before the derailment, Taiwan News informed the general secretary of the railway administration, Chu Lai-shun, according to reports on Monday.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with the families of the victims at the scene of Monday's accident and called for an investigation to be launched as soon as possible.
Eight of the people who died were members of the same family who were traveling home after a wedding, local media reported.
Write to Trefor Moss in Trefor.Moss@wsj.com
It appeared in the print edition of October 23, 2018 as 'Taiwan Probes Deadly Rail Crash'.
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