Unfortunately no luck for this 19yr. old woman in Taichung who was hit by a car and thrown over the side of the road with a 6m drop down to the ground. She died from her injuries. Car coming from opposite direction was likely speeding on a wet road and spun out of control going all the way over to the other side of the road and hit the woman on her scooter.
I’m familiar with this road. I pass through quite often when going hiking out by Guguan or Dakeng area or going to Xinshe district. Lots of people speeding and just being dangerous.
Also in Taichung. Utility pole in a narrow two-way street makes it impossible for cars to pass through without crossing over the double yellow line. It has been hit many times before. This time it was hit and knocked down.
69yr. old man who just had his new car for less than one week hits multiple vehicles…accidentally put the car in reverse and seemingly floors it.
In Taichung’s YiZhong a vehicle illegally parks and the scooter behind them doesn’t want to go around since it’s a double yellow. The rider honks and the car driver and a passenger get out to argue and yell with the passenger even hitting the man with his slipper. Police arrived and since the rider seemed unhurt urged him to to accept their apology.
Excellent role model. Take your kid to school without giving them a helmet. Stop in the middle of the road. Lose your shit because someone told you not to stop in the middle of the road. Chase after them and cause a collision right in front of your child’s school where all her classmates can see.
Stuck accelerator pedal seems to happen a lot. Unsure what is causing this. An aftermarket aluminum racing pedal, so common in Taiwan, because it was a little longer than stock got stuck under the floormat of a rental. Scary.
‘69yr. old man buys new SUV’ explains this event quite well. Human error on the buying and operating part. I hope he is downgraded to a mobility scooter where he can’t endanger others that much.
I guess that could also explain the recent unlicensed teen that recently accelerated into the corner shop on the opposite side of the street, I think causing fatalities.
Road was redesigned in Tainan. It’s pretty much mocked by everyone online. Online people already redesigned the road already to make it better than what the govt. did. As this is a prov. highway (prov. hwy 19) it falls under the responsibility of the Highway Bureau. Some politicians have already come out to condemn the design and will conduct on-site inspections of the road. Even the local transportation dept. was surprised at the road markings that the Highway Bureau drew. Another meeting will be held to discuss adjustments.
How can you as a worker/designer of the Highway Bureau look at this finished road design and actually accept it. They have to have learned at least some kind of road design to get in the position they are working in. I cant imagine that any learning ressource ever taught, that this kind of road desing is acceptable??
What an absolute waste of ressources, money and time, just to do it all over again now.
This also has other issues. Often when an intersection is approaching and the lane ‘snakes’, the scooter lane simply ends. That means the scooters need to merge into the car lane. When changing lanes one has to yield to vehicles already occupying the lane. Guess how often motorcycles do not yield in such situations.
The “before” pic must be a recent poor redesign itself because the google street view is from May 2023 and it was a normal straight two lane road with scooter lanes. Current road is a creative solution to adding turn lanes and a painted sidewalk.
In Changhua a repeat drunk driver…out of jail for just 7 days before getting his 4th DUI which came about of an accident which left his friend dead. The guy was out drinking all night into the afternoon and blew a 1.31…an insanely high number to the point it’s hard to believe he can even put the keys in the scooter at that point or even stand up for that matter.
He was previously serving a sentence for his 3rd time DUI earlier this year. He was carrying his friend on the back of the scooter after drinking and had a single vehicle accident which killed the passenger. The repeat drunk driver was sentenced to 8yrs. and 6 months.
Another absurdly drunk driver, blowing a 1.32 in Kaoshiung. Hits a person on a scooter than drives away…
Taichung again with another unlicensed driver driving drunk. Runs a red light and hits a travel bus.
Not as bad but a similar event here in Taichung today too. 71yr. old driver backing out from his house seemingly floors it into the clinic across the street…and then goes forward and rams into his house.
If this isn’t a wake up call to stop driving or at least seriously consider some changes I don’t know what is, but then again most of Taiwan is not very good in terms of walkability and pedestrian safety and public transportation is lacking and riding a bicycle is also dangerous…so lots of people will stick to driving until their dying breath.
Saw one of those old, old guys on a small scooter today. He was not going fast…but maybe when you are over 100 years old that wind in your face makes you think you are flying.
