DERAILMENT: A probe found fault with the driver for turning off the automatic train protection signaling system while the train was traveling over the speed limit
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 07, 2019
By: Jason Pan / Staff Reporter
Yilan County prosecutors yesterday charged a train driver and two Taiwan Railways
Cars from Puyuma Express No. 6432 are pictured after the train derailed near Yilan County’s Suao Township on Oct. 21 last year.
Photo: Taipei Times [no photographer credit provided]
The driver, Yu Chen-chung (尤振仲), should be held responsible for the derailment of Puyuma Express No. 6432, because he had switched off the automatic train protection (ATP) signaling system while the train was traveling over the speed limit before it derailed near Yilan County’s Suao Township (蘇澳) at 4:50pm on Oct. 21 last year, the Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office said.
An investigation found that the train was traveling at 141kph when approaching a bend near Suao’s Sinma Station (新馬), where the speed limit for the express train was set at 75kph.
“Prior to the incident, at 4:17pm, Yu breached TRA operation rules by switching off the ATP system, after which the train lost the system’s protective function, and Yu failed to report this condition,” the indictment said. [FULL STORY]
