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HUALIEN, KOMPAS.com – A survivor of a train accident in Taiwan recounts the seconds before the incident occurred on Friday (2/4/2021).
Chung Hui-mei, the only survivor from his family of four, said the driver repeatedly honked his horn before the collision.
The woman immediately suspected something was wrong, but the train didn’t seem to slow down one bit.
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The engineer honked his horn, which meant there was something ahead, but he didn’t slow down, Chung said.
“He drove fast until the train hit the tunnel,” he said. Kompas.com since AFP, Saturday (3/4/2021).
The train driver and two other staff members were among the dead, authorities said.
The youngest victim on record so far is six years old.
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Then, in total, at least 50 people were killed in the Taiwan train accident and another 170 were injured.
A train car left the tracks near Taroko Gorge, Hualien, Taiwan on Friday (2/4/2021). This train crashed after colliding with a vehicle that was sliding backwards without a driver, killing 51 people.This driverless collision with a vehicle backing up the embankment caused the train to crash while entering a tunnel in the city of Hualien.
The carriage is full of people cleaning the graves of their ancestors at the Grave Sweeping Festival on a four-day national holiday.
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“My son answered once, then there was silence”
Chung Hui-mei sat apart from his family because the train was full.
“I was trying to find them, my husband was sitting in front of the eighth car,” she told the newspaper. Liberty times, with bandages on the forehead and arms.
Chung said that he called his daughter and heard him answer her only once, after which everything fell silent.
A total of 372 passengers were seated and another 120 stood in the aisle in Taiwan’s worst train accident in decades.
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