Taiwan leader seeks speedy probe of fatal train crash
DONGSHAN TOWNSHIP, Taiwan — Taiwan’s president pressed for a quick, transparent probe into the cause of the island’s worst train crash in nearly three decades as the search of the derailed cars ended and crash investigators examined the wreckage Monday.
The eight-car Puyuma express ran off the tracks as it went around a bend where the maximum speed is 47 mph. Video footage obtained by local media showed the train striking and toppling a beam and ripping down metal structures from above the tracks as it crashed.
Eighteen people were killed and 187 injured in the crash that left most of the cars damaged and five overturned.