Fourteen passengers were injured early yesterday when their bus ran into the back of a truck on a freeway in Miaoli County, in the second such incident in three days.
The Aloha Bus Co coach was severely damaged when it rear-ended a slow-moving freight truck that was carrying tonnes of bottled water on a long uphill stretch on National Highway No. 1 in Sanyi Township (三義), police said.
Thirteen of the passengers traveling from Greater Kaohsiung to Taipei suffered minor injuries, while a bus hostess who had “blood all over her face” needed medical treatment and observation, police said.
Many of the passengers were sleeping when the accident occurred at about 2am. One of them told the police that he was awakened by the sound of people screaming and that was when he realized there had been an accident.
The truck driver told the police that his fully loaded truck was traveling at 60kph when it was hit from behind.
The bus driver, surnamed Ke, was questioned by the police yesterday morning.
The accident came two days after another long-haul bus was involved in a similar incident in which 18 people were injured. The Taiwan Motor Transport Co bus rear-ended a truck in Taoyuan County on the same national highway at 12:25am on Saturday.
The bus was on a 300km route from Tainan to Taipei. The 40-year-old bus driver, who broke both legs, was among the 18 people injured in that accident, the Taoyuan County Fire Department said.
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