Puyuma Express passenger train on Taitung Line headed north derailed just before Sanmin station
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/24
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A north-bound No. 431 Puyuma Express train heading from
Puyuma Express Train derails. (Image by Edouard Roquette)
Taitung to New Taipei’s Shulin District suddenly derailed at about 4:25 p.m. this afternoon, just outside of Sanmin Station in Hualien County, according to an eyewitness.
According to a 34-year-old French entrepreneur on board, Edouard Roquette, who was originally bound for Taipei, the ride had been uneventful until the train started to near Sanmin Station when the car he was in started “shaking hard left and right, and people were thrown sideways in their seat… Nothing happened before it and it caught everyone by surprise.”
Roquette then describes what he did next, “I immediately grabbed the seat in front of me. I didn’t see anyone falling. Mostly everyone looked very afraid that the car was going to fall on its side.” [FULL STORY]
