At least 36 dead, dozens more injured after train derailment in Taiwan

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

As your first response post to the accident, you post H-6 bomber propaganda...

There's something wrong with you.

Well, Chinese never show mercy to their enemies.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Well, Chinese never show mercy to their enemies.

Hmm...well you are talking to someone in Japan about showing no mercy to enemies...I think they know about that mindset 85 years ago.

 

[AViet]

That's exactly what people said about China

Japan's Shinkansen system: total ~ 2000 km, no deaths so far; no accident (except 01 related to earthquake)

China's CRH system: total 37,000 km, only 40 deaths so far (only one accident); no small accident.

Germany's ICE system: ~ 2000 km, at least 200 deaths in various accidents

France's TGV system: ~ 2000 km, at least 10 deaths in one accident, numerous small accidents (killed livestock, crashed with trucks etc.)

Taiwan's Shinkansen system (~300 km): no accident, no death

So far Japanese systems seems to be the best in term of safety; China is firmly in second position. European systems are not good at safety, although they run at much lower average speed (200 km/h vs. 300 km/h in China)

 

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Japan's Shinkansen system: total ~ 2000 km, no deaths so far; no accident (except 01 related to earthquake)

China's CRH system: total 37,000 km, only 40 deaths so far (only one accident); no small accident.

Germany's ICE system: ~ 2000 km, at least 200 deaths in various accidents

France's TGV system: ~ 2000 km, at least 10 deaths in one accident, numerous small accidents (killed livestock, crashed with trucks etc.)

Taiwan's Shinkansen system (~300 km): no accident, no death

So far Japanese systems seems to be the best in term of safety; China is firmly in second position. European systems are not good at safety, although they run at much lower average speed (200 km/h vs. 300 km/h in China)

The Japanese system is old as well as being over price. It also runs lower speed than China HSR.

 

[OIO]

Close to 50 dead, dozens more injured and trapped after train derailment in Taiwan - National | Globalnews.ca

At least four people are believed dead, three people with serious injuries have been sent to hospital and around 20 with light injuries are waiting to go to hospital.

globalnews.ca

At least 36 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades.


The train, an express traveling from Taipei to Taitung carrying many tourists and people heading home at the start of a long weekend, came off the rails north of Hualien in eastern Taiwan, the fire department said.

Images of the crash scene show carriages inside the tunnel ripped apart from the impact, while others crumpled, hindering rescuers reaching passengers.

The train was carrying around 350 people, the fire department said. Taiwan media said many people were standing as the train was so full, and were thrown about when it crashed.

Between 80 to 100 people were evacuated from the first four carriages of the train, while carriages five to eight have “deformed” and are hard to gain access to, it added.

“Is everyone out in carriage four?” a lady is heard shouting from inside the tunnel, in images provided by the fire department.

The official Central News Agency said a truck that was “not parked properly” was suspected of sliding into the path of the train. The fire department showed a picture of what appeared to be the truck’s wreckage lying next to the derailed train.


“Our train crashed into a truck,” one man said in a video aired on Taiwanese television, showing pictures of the wreckage. “The truck came falling down.”

Part of the train was situated outside the tunnel, and those in carriages still in the tunnel were being led to safety, Taiwan’s railway administration said.

Images showed an injured passenger being stretched out of the crash scene, her head and neck in a brace, passengers gathering suitcases and bags in a tilted, derailed carriage and others walking along the tracks littered with wreckage.

The accident occurred at the start of a long weekend for the traditional Tomb Sweeping Day.

Taiwan’s mountainous east coast is a popular tourist destination, and the railway line from Taipei down the east coast is renowned for its tunnels and route that hugs the coast just north of Hualien where the crash occurred.

The line connecting Taipei with Hualien was only opened in 1979.

In 2018, 18 people died and 175 were injured when a train derailed in northeastern Taiwan. In 1981, 30 were killed in a collision in northern Taiwan.

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A tragedy that could have been avoided if Taiwan’s leaders put their minds on how to manage Taiwan well.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

A tragedy that could have been avoided if Taiwan’s leaders put their minds on how to manage Taiwan well.

Instead of buying F-16V which is no use against China anyway. They should care more about their own people rather being such fascists like Tsai.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

List of accidents on Amtrak - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Americans are incompetent judging from that list description of the accidents

He's just going to say that it's no big deal, they're just poor or minorities.

 

[bshifter]

He's just going to say that it's no big deal, they're just poor or minorities.

He even refused to make a comment because the truth hurts.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Didn't some Westerners ans Japanese claimed that Taiwan High Speed Rail is much more advanced and safer than those by China in the mainland?

 

[Goritoes]

RIP and thoughts and prayers for those who are injured, shame of people who are bringing China V Taiwan even in the tragedy.