Taiwan’s National Transportation Safety Board is reading the information related to the Taroko accident. Yang Hongzhi, chairman of the Transportation Safety Board, said yesterday that the accident train hit an engineering car and then crashed into the tunnel, resulting in the train and the tunnel extrusion, thus causing serious injuries and deaths, stating that the tunnel is “a more unfortunate environment”. He also revealed that the driver immediately reacted in just four seconds and even stepped on the brakes to the maximum, and sounded the horn, in a short distance at high speed, almost difficult to return to the situation, but still do their best to save the passengers.
Yang Hongzhi said, from the engineering understanding, if the location of the accident did not tunnel, only the train and engineering vehicles, the speed and weight of the Taroko and engineering vehicles compared to the disaster he believes will be relatively minor, as people kicked a tin can on the road, theoretically the tin can bounced open. But unfortunately this time there is a tunnel in front, is a more unfortunate environment, the whole train and the tunnel extrusion, not only just the train and the engineering car extrusion, the carriage at the front derailed, the back is finished.
Yang Hongzhi said, the transport security will be from the tunnel entrance wall was destroyed traces to compare, trying to restore the accident process.
As for the day before yesterday, Taiwan Railway estimates that the accident train will come out of the Heeren Tunnel after the curve, and then drive a small straight line into the accident site of the Clearwater Tunnel, and the Heeren Tunnel to the Clearwater Tunnel between about 2.87 meters, but the distance from the collision site for two hundred and fifty meters, if calculated according to the Taroko speed of 130 kilometers per hour, even if the driver saw the engineering vehicle once out of the tunnel, the whole process is only 6.9 seconds to react.
Yang Hongzhi added that once the accident train left the Heeren Tunnel, it ran into the engineering car lying on top of the tracks, and 20 meters in front of it was the Clearwater Tunnel, “which is an unfortunate situation”, but according to the latest ATP (Automatic Train Protection System) data and TCMS (Train Control and Management System) data interpretation, the driver At that time, as soon as he saw the engineering car, he immediately reacted to step on the brakes in just four seconds, and stepped continuously, stepping on the maximum and sounding the horn, until all the information stopped after the train crashed into the tunnel.
He also revealed that the transport security will have mastered from the engineering car fell off the tracks to the derailment accident occurred between the blank five to seven minutes, when the side slope how many people, part of the information needs to be handled by the investigation, the transport security will be clearly revealed to the public in the near future. But he also research and judgment, even if the personnel on the side slope at that time found the engineering car slipped, the immediate notification of warning, I am afraid it is too late to stop the accident.
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