ACCOUNTABILITY: One legislator said that if company owners are not held responsible, they would continue to overwork their employees and cause more crashes
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 25, 2018
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
A truck involved in a crash that killed three people in Tainan on Monday belongs to a
Taoist priests yesterday lead victims’ relatives in a ceremony at the scene of a crash that killed two police officers and a truck driver on Sun Yat-sen Freeway in Tainan on Monday. Photo: Wang Han-ping, Taipei Times
transport company that frequently overworks its drivers and causes road casualties, the New Power Party (NPP) caucus said yesterday.
Two police officers, Kuo Chen-hsiung (郭振雄) and Yeh Chia-hao (葉家豪), and a truck driver surnamed Hsiao (蕭) were killed in the rear-end collision on Sun Yat-sen Freeway (Freeway No. 1).
The truck driver responsible for the accident, surnamed Lu (陸), admitted to having dozed off due to fatigue.
“While the driver has been released by the Tainan District Prosecutors’ Office on bail of NT$100,000 [US$3,377], should his boss not also be held responsible?” NPP caucus convener Hsu Yung-ming (徐永明) told a news conference at the caucus’ office in Taipei.
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