China News Service, Taipei, February 14th: A cherry blossom viewing group tour bus overturned in Taipei City near Nangang District on the evening of the 13th, killing 33 people and injuring 11 others. This is also the most serious road accident in Taiwan in 30 years. The tour bus

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China News Service Taipei, February 14th: A cherry blossom viewing group tour bus overturned near Nangang District in Taipei City on the evening of the 13th, killing 33 people and injuring 11 others. This is also the most serious road accident in Taiwan in 30 years.

China News Service, Taipei, February 14th: A cherry blossom viewing group tour bus overturned in Taipei City near Nangang District on the evening of the 13th, killing 33 people and injuring 11 others. This is also the most serious road accident in Taiwan in 30 years. The tour bus - DayDayNews

The tour bus involved in the accident was hoisted. Photo by China News Service reporter Chen Lin

According to reports from the Central News Agency, "United Daily News", China Times Electronic News and other media, among the road accidents currently recorded in Taiwan, a tour bus crashed in Taichung Guguan on October 8, 1986. The most serious accident occurred when a man fell into a river at a scenic spot, killing 42 people and injuring three others.

In the past 10 years, serious road accidents in Taiwan also include:

On December 3, 2006, the Meiling tour bus accident overturned on the Meiling road section in Tainan City Nanxi. 22 people on the bus died and 24 others suffered minor or serious injuries;

On June 24, 2007, Yangmingshan tour bus fell into the valley accident. A tour bus carrying 36 passengers failed to brake when it was passing through the intersection of Yangde Avenue and Yongdao Road going down the mountain. It first collided with the car in front, and then It rushed out of the cliff, overturned and fell into a 100-meter-deep valley. Most of the passengers were thrown out of the car. Together with the two passengers in the car, a total of 8 deaths and 25 injuries were caused;

October 21, 2010, Creative Travel Agency Tourist Bus Accident, 2010 The outer circulation of Typhoon "Mei Ji" and the northeast monsoon have a co-existing effect. Yilan County Su'ao and Nan'ao received heavy rains, causing Suhua Highway A large number of earth and rock avalanches in the 112-kilometer to 116-kilometer section were washed away. The tour bus of Creative Travel Agency carried 21 A member of a tour group from Zhuhai, Guangdong, was suspected of being hit by a falling rock and fell into the sea. 26 people on the bus were missing;

On December 9, 2012, Hsinchu Jianshi tour bus accident occurred. A bus carrying New Taipei City Taishan Elementary School alumni, The medium-sized bus with a family of 22 people suddenly stalled and fell about 150 meters from the road when meeting an SUV at the 9-kilometer mark of the -Simacus Link Road in Jianshi Township, killing 13 people. 10 injuries;

On July 19, 2016, 24 mainland tourists from Liaoning Province, mainland China, hosted by Julong Travel Agency, were traveling to Taoyuan Airport to take a flight. The tour bus was set on fire by the driver on Taiwan Highway 2, including the driver and A total of 26 people, including the tour guide, were killed.

According to an article in the United Daily News on the 6th of this month, since mainland tourists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait were allowed to visit Taiwan in 2008, mainland tourists have encountered 12 major accidents in Taiwan, resulting in at least 83 deaths and 159 injuries. Of these 12 accidents, except for one in which an Alishan train overturned and one in which a TransAsia Airways flight crashed into the Keelung River, the remaining 10 were all related to tour buses. (End)

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