A 48-year-old man was detained on Tuesday after allegedly driving drunk and rear-ending a garbage truck in Tainan’s Anping District (安平), killing a 23-year-old sanitation worker who was standing behind the truck, prosecutors said.
Video of the incident, which occurred at about 8am on Tuesday, showed a passenger car driven by the man, surnamed Cheng (鄭), slamming into the sanitation worker and the back of the garbage truck, which had stopped along Qingping Road to collect trash.
The female worker, surnamed Chen (陳), was pronounced dead at the scene.
Photo courtesy of a local resident
Cheng was trapped in his vehicle, but was conscious when firefighters extricated him and took him to National Cheng Kung University Hospital at about 8:30am, police officials said.
Cheng’s breath-alcohol concentration was 0.95 milligrams per liter, police said.
He was referred to prosecutors on suspicion of endangering public safety and causing death by negligence.
Prosecutors conducted a post-mortem examination of Chen and concluded that she died from multiple traumatic injuries, including a severe blow to the lower body that resulted in multiple fractures.
After questioning, the Tainan District Prosecutors’ Office filed a motion with the Tainan District Court to detain Cheng.
The request was approved later that night.
The garbage truck was operated by a private contractor, not the Environmental Protection Bureau, the bureau said.
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