Focus Taiwan
Date: 09/21/2020
By: Huang Li-yun and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Sept. 21 (CNA) A public bus rode onto a sidewalk in Taipei's Neihu District on Monday evening, causing the death of a scooter driver and injuring a police officer, according to city police and fire fighters.

They received a report at around 8 p.m. that a Sanchung Bus Blue 26 bus had jumped the curb and rode on the sidewalk of Section 1 of Neihu Rd., ramming into more than 20 parked motorcycles, the police and fire fighters said.

After rushing to the scene, they found a man without any vital signs and a police officer who was standing on the sidewalk with moderate injuries after being hit, the police and fire fighters said.

The two were taken to a nearby hospital, at which the man without vital signs was pronounced dead, they said.    [FULL  STORY]