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The Railway Administration of Taiwan (AFT) announced today that the train that derailed yesterday left several dead and 187 wounded near Taipei were deprived of electric power, although the causes of the accident are subject of an investigation.
The driver of the express train Puyuma warned before the accident of the detected problems of the electrical system, assured in press conference the deputy chief of AFT equipment, Lai Shui-chin, in the middle witness statements accusing the accident of a failure of the automatic protection system and speed.
In particular, the train driver repeatedly reported "an unusually low pressure of the air compressor that controls the electrical system", explained the Railway Administration, although this problem had to be repaired in a station previous, where the device had been revised.
The Puyuma express 6432, which connected Shulin to Taitung and carried 366 passengers on board, derailed Sunday at 16:50 (0850 GMT) and, although the death toll is currently 22, it is feared that it will increase to which a dozen wounded is in a very serious state.
The investigation to clarify the causes of the accident is still open and the director of AFT, Lu Chieh-shen, acknowledged that the possibility of an automatic protection system, which control the speed of the train so that the system works properly, is also envisaged. electric, it would have been turned off manually.
The video footage shows that the train was probably traveling above the maximum allowed speed of 75 to 80 kilometers at the time when the accident occurred, almost immediately after the entrance of the train. A bend, about 300 meters from the departure station.
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