However, lawmakers during a question-and-answer session pressed the board to announce specific timelines for releasing final investigative reports on the two accidents. Taiwan Transportation Safety Board Chairman Young Hong-tsu speaks at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee in Taipei yesterday. As for the report on the bridge collapse, Young said that the board was set to finalize a draft of the report in a meeting yesterday afternoon. Young said that the board could not deliver the report on the bridge collapse sooner due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a shortage of investigators for highway and freeway accidents. “We only have four investigators for highway accidents, but we would need 11 to handle the workload,” Young said.

Source: Taipei Times September 30, 2020 16:18 UTC