At 10:30 a.m. yesterday, a tourist bus carrying 18 passengers from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, was driving in the southbound lane of the Xinpi section of the First Line of Taiwan, when it hit the sign pole of the central safety island of the road, and 5 tourists were slightly injured, together with the driver, and were sent to Donggang Antai Hospital for treatment.
It is understood that the 18 tourists on the bus are all from the tour group of Zhejiang Provincial Travel Service. Yesterday, the Express reporter contacted Zhu Jin, general manager of the marketing promotion department of Zhejiang Province CTS for the first time.
"After the car accident in the morning, all of our tourists, accompanied by the tour leader and local guide, went to the hospital for examination. According to the feedback from the female team leader, 5 tourists have small areas of abrasions, which have been treated, and there is no major problem at present. ”
"This group departed for Taiwan on April 22 and is expected to end its trip back to Hangzhou on April 29. The travel agency will continue to track the incident to confirm the safety of tourists. The itinerary is also continuing, and guests have already traveled from Kaohsiung to Kenting. Zhu Jin said.
The cause of the accident is suspected to be the driver's desertion and the sunlight is too harsh
According to what Zhu Jin learned, because the driver was in a trance, or in order to avoid the vehicles in front, he directly hit the safety island and knocked a scenic sign of an ecological leisure farm to the ground. According to the investigation by the local police in Taiwan from the black box of the bus, the driver did not have fatigue driving and drunk driving.
The knocked-down sign points to yiranju Firefly Ecological Leisure Farm. The farm is located in the necessary section of the south of Kenting, the owner of the park is a retired teacher, because of the success of breeding countless fireflies wild, after retirement back to his hometown to open up the Lotus Mist Garden into a wetland environment suitable for the growth of fireflies.
There are more than 2,000 kinds of fireflies in the world, about 50 kinds in Taiwan, this ecological farm has reared more than 10 kinds of fireflies, and the garden has Taiwan's largest collection of aquatic yellow-green fireflies and terrestrial Taiwan window fireflies.
"Fortunately, all the tourists were wearing seat belts at that time, and they had signed the tour contract and purchased compulsory insurance before leaving. The insurance is about 50 yuan, but the maximum outpatient payment is 130,000 Taiwan dollars (100 yuan = NT$437.12, NT$130,000 is about 29,740 yuan), and the medical expenses incurred will be borne by the insurance company. ”
According to Taiwan's local media China Broadcasting News Network, the cause of the accident is suspected to be the driver's lack of concentration in driving, coupled with the glare of the sun, resulting in an out-of-control self-collision.
Taiwan's "Central News Agency" said that the 50-year-old driver told the police that it hit the safety island because of a momentary trance and glare of sunlight. Police said they would investigate whether the driver was tired of driving.
Taiwan's East Net reported that after the tour bus hit the central safety island sign pole of the road, it got stuck on the safety island. The 5 passengers on the bus and the driver himself fell due to the impact, had minor skin trauma, and have been sent to Antai Hospital in Donggang Town for medical treatment, and there is no danger to their lives.
The five injured Visitors to Hangzhou were all women
Taiwan's China Broadcasting News Network reported that one of the 6 injured was a tour bus driver. The other five injured were all female tourists, one about 65 years old and the other four in their 40s. All five visitors had minor abrasions and had been sent to the hospital for treatment.
Why do Taiwan tourist buses often have accidents?
Taiwan's buses seem to have had repeated accidents, causing concern about the safety of travel to Taiwan.
In February, a tourist bus full of mainland tourists crashed into the pier of Hexi Road in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, causing serious damage to the bus, injuring 21 people, seven of whom were children.
According to the police investigation, the main cause of the accident was that the driver was not familiar with the road conditions and did not pay attention to the high and hard body. The driver said that the accident was caused by the distraction of discussing the itinerary with the tour guide, which caused the culvert with a ceiling height of 2.8 meters.
On July 19, 2016, a car accident occurred about 3 kilometers west of Taoyuan Airport Liaison Road on the Taiwan Expressway No. 2, when a bus full of passengers crashed into a guardrail, and then the vehicle caught fire and emitted thick black smoke, resulting in the death of all 26 people in the car.
In the crash, 24 of the 26 people killed were from the Liaoning Dalian tour group, including 8 men and 16 women. There was news that the driver jumped out of the car to escape, but later confirmed by the police that on the day of the accident, the bus driver Su Mingcheng had received a call from his wife, telling him that he would return to the mainland with his three children to settle down, Su Mingcheng threatened to set fire to suicide on the spot, and the result was really impulsive stupidity, resulting in a tragedy.
On April 25, 2016, a bus carrying mainland tourists was overturning on the Miaoli section of Gongdao No. 1 for unknown reasons, and affected a side gravel truck, resulting in the death of the tour bus driver and the injury of 26 people.
According to the driving recorder of the vehicles passing through the road section at that time, the bus was constantly changing lanes to overtake in the middle and outer lines, and just when switching from the outer lane to the middle line to more than a gravel car, the body suddenly lost control, and after a left and right shake, the front of the car first violently hit the shoulder sound insulation wall, and then the whole car was bounced back to the lane 180 degrees and turned sideways into the central separation island.
The Express reporter interviewed Wang Jing, general manager of the Taiwan Tourism Center of Guangda University Travel Center, yesterday.
"In fact, traffic accidents will occur in various tourist destinations, which may be that our attention to the local area is relatively high, so subjectively we will feel that the probability seems to be higher." Wang Jing said that according to her understanding, the quality of local buses in Taiwan should be said to be very passable, including the level of quality inspection and supervision, which is relatively formal. For the winding mountain roads along the Pacific coastline, such as the journey from Taipei to Hualien, most travel agencies in Hangzhou basically design this section of the trip to take the train and try to avoid traffic risks.
City Express reporter Jiang Yue Lin Bibo
(Photo from local media, taken and provided by police at the site of the accident.) ）
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