A 60-year-old woman surnamed Li drove a white car in the opposite direction on the same day in a serious traffic accident in the Shin UK district of Taoyuan City, Taiwan, according to a report by the China Times News Network, the Associated Press News Network and other Taiwanese media on the 10th, four people were killed and two were injured when the car collided with a gravel truck. Police are investigating the cause of the crash, the report said.
Four people were killed and two others injured in a car accident in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Monday. Photograph: Taiwan Media
Reported that the accident occurred at around 11:00 am on the 10th, when the woman surnamed Li was driving through the second section of Zhongshan West Road in Xinwu District of Taoyuan City, driving in the opposite direction for unknown reasons, she slammed into a gravel truck. Footage shows the woman’s vehicle hitting a nearby home after the collision, and the gravel truck driver, a 36-year-old man surnamed Hu, rushing into a nearby paddy field.
According to reports, a total of five people on the white car, the driver surnamed Li woman died on the spot, in the passenger seat of the 61-year-old woman surnamed Yang injured, the back row of three passengers were pronounced dead after the hospital. The driver, surnamed Hu, was also injured. It is understood that the white car driver and his party had just attended the farewell ceremony of Li surnamed woman’s father, after the end of the trip, on the way to the restaurant encountered an accident.