A car driven by a person without a license crashed into a bus and three other vehicles in downtown Taipei this afternoon, leaving the driver and seven others injured, local police said.
The incident happened on the southbound-only section of Chongqing S Road, Sec 1, near Xiangyang Road, two blocks away from the Presidential Office.
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Dash cam footage from a vehicle behind showed a black car speeding through a red light at the Wuchang Street intersection and into vehicles that were stopped ahead of Xiangyang Road at about 2:19pm.
The front of the black car was smashed, and the driver, a 78-year-old man who does not have a driver's license, was taken to the hospital along with seven others.
A 69-year-old pedestrian had fractures on his right leg, while two scooter riders had abrasions on their arms or legs, first responders said.
Traffic was backed up to north of Zhongxiao W Road until workers removed the vehicles about an hour later, the Taipei Police Department's Traffic Division said.
The driver, surnamed Chiu (邱), initially tested negative for alcohol, but further tests would be carried out to confirm the results, police said.
The police did not have any preliminary theories on why the driver sped through the red light.
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