Truck fell onto track less than 2 minutes before fatal train crash
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Taipei, April 6 (CNA) The Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) has deduced that the fatal collision between a Taroko express train and a crane truck on April 2 occurred less than two minutes after the truck fell onto the track near the entrance to the Qingshui Tunnel in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan.
The organization, which is independent of the government, announced at a presentation in Taipei Tuesday the findings of its investigation into the accident that killed 50 people and injured over 200.
Its results were based on data and video chips retrieved from the train's drive recorder and its automatic protection and control and management systems.
TTSB Chairman Young Hong-tsu (楊宏智) said that from this data, the board found that excavators and crane machines were operating at a construction site above the scene of the accident before it occurred at 9:28 a.m. last Friday.
Video images show that a crane truck was running down an incline at the construction site when it ran off the dirt road at a turning point, where it got stuck in the roadside bushes and its engine stalled. The vehicle then slid down to the railway track below, Young said.
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