Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s someone mentally not all there. This is downtown Taichung.
Pedestrian and 3 people on scooters hit by a driver who accidentally stepped on the accelerator at a red light and ran up onto the sidewalk in Keelung. One person was trapped under the vehicle.
i am honestly shit scared to ride a scoot/moto or even bike in taiwan
Walking isn’t safe either
[!quote] focustaiwan.tw
The drug supplier of a driver who was detained for crashing into a cycling team while under the influence has also been placed in incommunicado detention following a raid in Changhua’s Yuanlin Township.
Chen (陳) was arrested and transferred to the Changhua District Prosecutors Office on Friday on charges of violating the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act.
FB page showing traveling in a wheelchair in Taiwan.
The poster shares a picture in Taichung. Mega wide road and no sidewalks. Outer lane so wide you can fit more than 2 cars side-by-side…
This is Wuquan 5th St.
The picture of a qilou here is better than a lot of places…that’s sad.
Google street view where you can easily see double parking on this street.
2yrs. ago today in Tainan a 3yr. old girl and her mother were crossing the street. They were hit by a left turning driver who didn’t to yield to them. The 3yr. old girl died.
It’s been 2yrs. already…
Still so much to be done.
So much has already been done in the past two years. Wang GuoCai got that requirement for three minutes of footage on many public reports enacted without any due process, and he then managed to get a load of completely non-dangerous violations, like smoking while driving, driving with ten people on the same scooter, parking on a red line or a bus stop, or clogging and completely obstructing sidewalks with illegally-parked motorcycles taken off the list of items that the public can report.
The government has even removed the possibility of receiving points on one’s license in the majority of tickets issued. And are plans still underway to put licenses back in the hands of people who have maimed and killed and had their licenses taken away previously? Or is that already in effect?
To celebrate all of these big changes here in Taichung, we killed an extra eight pedestrians in the past year. 
Well here’s an update regarding tinted windows…the MOTC is ridiculous.
Vehicles that already have tinted windows that fail to meet the new standards will not be required to be removed of replaced with compliant tints when the new regulations come into effect. Only newly installed tints must be compliant with the new standards.
Regulations expected to come into effect, with enforcement, hopefully next year. So here’s the question…how the hell do you know when the tints were applied?! Are the police supposed to stop almost every single car on the road and investigate when you had the tint installed?
This came about when legislator Su Yue discussed traffic safety and people oriented transportation with MOTC Minister Chen.
[Facebook link to Legislator Su Yue’s post]
It is basically the same like allowing the tinted windows.
Taxi’s are not supposed to have any tints so would be extremely easy for the police to stop and fine, if they were bothered. The number of tinted taxi’s driving around answers whether they are bothered or not.
Driver who hit and killed a Japanese tourist on a sidewalk a few months ago in Kaohsiung has been indicted for negligent homicide. The driver claims he got nervous because he saw a police officer direction traffic and lost control of his vehicle which caused him to veer onto the sidewalk and hit the pedestrian…
Is there a way to add a slap to the forehead emoji to our choices?
You can suggest it here:
Some pictures I found shared online. Hsinchu sidewalk:
Taichung sidewalk. This spot I know. This is a new sidewalk, only a couple months old. Often have cars illegally parked here next to the hotpot restaurant, WanKe…
An update on this 2025 Kaohsiung Incident: the Taiwan driver who killed a Japanese pedestrian has been indicted for negligent homocide. No doubt since the driver is 72, he will plead for mercy / blame the A-frame / claim I was nervous because I saw some police ahead (the latter has actually been, according to reports, this old man’s excuse for killing this woman).
Guy
Do keep up.
My bad. But not as bad as that old guy’s driving. 
Guy
News article about this. Seems like the proposal is for new cars to be required to have legal tints and older cars can do whatever.
As for why…head of MOTC Minister Chen said because Taiwan is a South East Asian country…
Taiwan is hot so it is NECESSARY…meanwhile Singapore… 
Google translation of Minister Chen’s response:
Chen Shih-kai said in response to questions from legislators that he hoped that considering that we are a Southeast Asian country, thermal insulation paper is necessary because we are hotter and the sun is stronger. We will not require it for old cars, but we will require new cars in the future to apply thermal insulation paper or replace thermal insulation paper in accordance with the new regulations.
Pedestrian rights association responds by telling the MOTC to stop conflating thermal insulation with light transmittance and to follow basic standards and implement them across all vehicles. Also calls on the MOTC to set the light transmittance standard to be measured AFTER installation rather than simply directly measuring the light transmittance of the film by itself. The association says failure to properly create regulations and implement them will lead to them taking to the streets in protest.
The article then goes on to say that such dark tints pose a serious safety risk at night and is even comparable to drunk driving and poses a threat to pedestrians.
Another thing about the license. Previously I shared that the MOTC planned in July to make failing to yield to pedestrians when doing your car road test an automatic fail. There was another part that I missed when I first saw the news. The MOTC also wants you to point your hand/finger and audibly confirm, left no pedestrian, right no pedestrian before proceeding through a crosswalk when turning. I’m not sure if this requires test takers to come to a stop as well though. I wouldn’t be surprised if people turning left suddenly stop in the middle of the road to perform the hand check and verbal call out.
The major issue civic groups had with this is this was not brought up during their meeting with the MOTC, yet after the meeting the MOTC quickly announced this measure, seemingly using the opportunity to make it seem like the civic groups had agreed upon this as a good idea. After being called out the Highway Bureau now says this pointing and verbal confirmation measure is only in “internal discussion” despite being in most news outlets as a confirmed change…
The Highway Bureau said it would continue to take into account for different public opinions and consult with relevant stakeholders. Remember this is the same highway bureau that decided to purposely exclude motorcycle right’s association from a meeting about driver’s licenses…the same group that has called for an improved and harder license exam and better training. The Highway Bureau even specifically said the motorcycle right’s association was irrelevant to the discussion about driver’s licenses…
Also guess what has been seen on the roads recently. A Tesla Cyber Truck. Someone privately imported one and it has a “test” license plate which is only valid for 3 months. Fortunately for now the vehicle can not get a regular license plate to be road legal and can only have the “test” plate for now.
Omg. Never change, Taiwan, this is too funny.
The Taiwan MOTC (and to an extent the rest of the government) is criminally clueless when it comes to life-and-death matters. This shit will never be fixed. I already cut my losses and gave up on all this. Not everyone has that luxury, though.
