Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/16
By: Chiu Chun-chin and Ko Lin

Taipei, Aug. 16 (CNA) Nearly two dozen passengers suffered minor injuries when their high school bus crashed into the back of a moving container truck on National Freeway No. 1 on Friday afternoon, according to the Taoyuan Fire Department.

The accident took place at around 5:09 p.m. on the northbound section of the freeway near Chungli, the department said.

The driver and 22 students from a local school in Taoyuan suffered minor cuts and bruises, it said.

According to the National Highway Police Bureau, the incident caused a domino effect in which two other vehicles rear-ended the vehicle in front of them.    [FULL  STORY]