Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/05
By: Kuo Hsuan-wen and Emerson Lim
Taipei, June 5 (CNA) At least 30 vehicles were stranded along a freeway in Hsinchu
Photo courtesy of the National Highway Police Bureau
County on Monday due to punctured tires caused by numerous pairs of scissors that fell from a delivery truck, the National Highway Police Bureau (NHPB) said Wednesday.
Around 6:48 p.m. Monday, the NHPB received several reports of accidents on the southbound lane of the Jiadong section of National Freeway No.3, police officers told reporters.
When the police arrived on the scene, they realized that the 30 stranded vehicles had flat-tires and that several pairs of broken scissors were scattered across the freeway.
Footage from traffic cameras later showed that the scissors had fallen from a delivery truck, police said. [FULL STORY]
