Accident causes traffic jam in Chiayi County
Taiwan News
Date: 2016/11/05
By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – At least 15 people were injured and nine vehicles were damaged in a crash
By Central News Agency
which involved a bus on a freeway in Chiayi County, reports said Saturday.
There were no immediate reports of life-threatening injuries.
Around 1:10 p.m., a bus of the Ubus Co. traveling north on the Sun Yat-sen Freeway near the city of Dalin failed to brake on time ahead of a line of cars merging to the right due to road works ahead, reports said. The bus, on its way from Tainan to Taichung, crashed into the other vehicles before skidding to a stop against the freeway’s central divider with its front ripped apart.
As about a dozen ambulances rushed to the scene, it became clear that nobody was in mortal danger, with some of those lightly injured even insisting they should not be taken to hospital, reports said. [FULL STORY]