Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/10/21
By: Shen Ju-feng, Lu Kang-chun, Wang Hung-kao, Lee Hsin-yin and Shih Hsiu-chuan 

Taipei, Oct. 21 (CNA) A survivor of Sunday’s fatal train derailment in Yilan County, northeastern Taiwan, said that the driver had applied emergency brakes multiple times before the accident.

The eight-carriage Puyuma express that departed from New Taipei bound for Taitung derailed at 4:50 p.m at Xinma railway station in Yilan.

The train had 366 passengers on board. The accident killed 22 people and left at least 171 injured, including an American woman who was slightly injured, as of 9:30 p.m, according to Yilan firefighters.

According to the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA), all eight carriages of the tilting train left the track and four of them overturned.    [FULL  STORY]