A crane lifts the wreckage of a truck which was hit by the train a day after the deadly train derailment at a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan. Friday's crash, Taiwan's worst rail accident in seven decades, occurred after an express train hit a truck that had slid down a bank next to the track from a construction site. The manager of the construction site is suspected of having failed to engage the brake properly. Yu Hsiu-duan, head of the Hualien prosecutors office, said prosecutors were at the scene collecting evidence. Before the Hualien accident, Taiwan's worst train crash occurred in 1948, when 64 people are estimated to have died when a train caught fire.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 03, 2021 04:41 UTC