Somebody said that it wasn’t possible to disable it without the consent of the central…
So it’s an issue if the train doesn’t warn people that they’ve done something stupid (turned off the control), but it’s not a problem if the train company turns off said control?
Typical.
No it didn’t after all.
A damning report on the crash has been released by a Cabinet special task force. Lee Hsin-yin from CNA reports on it here:
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Good news after tragedy
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Wow!
Updates in the case:
The TRA bosses are going to get nice bonus next year if they win this. Japanese company’s fault, driver’s fault, everybody else walks away with profit (except for the victims).
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Curiously they had a similar «accident» where the ATP alert system was turned off and a train surpassed its stop…in Taipei Main Station, no less.
Recently?
Couple of weeks if I recall correctly.
After reading the crash report:
- The crash was caused by the driver driving too fast with insufficient air compressors to tilt the train.
- The TRA knew 2 of the train’s air compressors were broken, but let it continue operating.
- The TRA control room knew the driver had switched off the ATP protection system, as he reported it via radio.
- The TRA knew the system that detected whether the ATP was on or off wasn’t installed (and it’s irrelevant as the driver reported that he’d switched it off).
Now they’re suing because the ATP on/off alert system wasn’t installed, and the air compressors were broken? Seems like this lawsuit is a bogus way to get some “face” back.
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The Control Yuan has decided to impeach three TRA executives:
Their cases will now apparently be sent to the Judicial Yuan’s Public Functionary Disciplinary Sanction Commission.
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Finally a detailed report outlining the circumstances leading to the deadly Puyuma derailment in 2018.
It’s incredible to me that it took them a full year to produce this report, which is now public almost exactly two years after the derailment.
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TRA tried suing Sumitomo Corporation in Japan—the manufacturers of the Puyuma trains—for causing the deadly derailment in Yilan back in October 2018. The Taipei District Court has rejected their claim, with some sharp words directed at TRA’s culture of mismanagement.
The court ruled in Sumitomo’s favor, saying that the Puyuma Express overturned and derailed because of excessive speed.
There was no causal link between the malfunctioning air compressor and the derailment, the court said.
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“Even if the ATP system [on the Puyuma train] had been connected properly to the telemonitoring system and the telemonitoring system could detect a deactivated ATP, it would not have prevented the crash, which was the result of years of systemic dysfunction in the TRA,” the court said.
Source: TRA’s Sumitomo lawsuit over derailed train tossed - Taipei Times
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It seems the Taipei District Court agreed with your assessment, as the case was thrown out.
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Seems like a fair display of judicial independence.
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The jail sentence for the driver of the deadline Puyuma train derailment has reportedly been upheld by Taiwan’s Supreme Court.
What a terrible chapter that was in TRA’s chequered history.
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