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Date: 2018/10/23
By: International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT)
Credit: Reuters / TPG
The head of a Cabinet task force investigating the cause of Sunday’s deadly derailment of a Puyama Express in Yilan said Monday that the train was traveling at 140 km an hour when the it entered a curve and derailed at Xinma station.
Minister without Portfolio Wu Tze-cheng (吳澤成) said the speed limit for the area is 75 km an hour, but authorities are still unable to explain why the train was operating at such a high speed.
Wu and 14 other members of the task force, which also includes visited the crash site of the train seeking to establish the focus of the investigation.
The Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office has ordered the train driver detained for further questioning, amid speculation he may have been professionally negligent.
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