Twenty-eight passengers and the driver of a bus were injured in a crash near Keelung this morning. None of the injuries were described as serious. At around 9:20am the driver lost control of the bus as it was rounding a bend and hit the guardrail. The coach mounted the concrete guardrail and was left straddling it after the crash. The coach was one of 6 hired to take the employees of an accountancy firm from Xinyi District in Taipei City
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A tour coach carrying a group from a church in Tainan crashed on a mountain road in Nantou County this afternoon leaving one passenger dead and 23 people injured. The group from the Presbyterian Tainan Datong Christian Church had just visited Qingjing Farm and were on their way home on Provincial Highway 14 when the driver suddenly called out “brake failure” and crashed into a tree at around 3:00pm. According to reports including United Daily News, some passengers were thrown
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Picture: UDN. A tour bus carrying 44 passengers lost control on National Highway 5, and crashed over a safety barrier near the Mucha Interchange this evening, February 13, 2017. The death toll so far stands at 28, according to Taiwan media reports. A further 16 injured passengers have been rushed to various hospitals in the area.
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[Picture: United Daily News] Chiayi County: A coach carrying 40 passengers slammed into the back of another coach in a tunnel on National Highway 3, resulting in 31 injured, 8:00am, October 6, 2016. The rear-ended coach was not carrying any passengers at the time. The injured passengers were part of a group of temple volunteers from Taichung on an outing to visit a recreation area in Chiayi County. The most seriously injured was a 61 year-old man who had to
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[picture: United Daily News] More than 10 ambulances were dispatched to the scene of an accident in Chiayi County after a coach plowed into cars on the National Highway at around 11:30am, Saturday, October 5. Cars were backed up due to reduced lanes for road work. A witness who saw the accident through his rear-vision mirror said the bus driver appeared not to have applied the brakes at all. Mr Wu said it was like seeing a bowling ball hitting
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An intercity coach traveling between Taipei and Kaohsiung crashed into a guardrail on the national highway after the driver collapsed at the wheel in the early hours Thursday, August 11. Six people, including the driver suffered minor injuries in the accident. The driver was sent to hospital with a fractured left foot, while passengers suffered minor bruises and abrasions. The coach was traveling on the highway passing through Nantun District in Taichung at around 2:00 a.m. when the driver collapsed
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