Tourists hurt in Taiwan bus crash
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TWENTY-ONE tourists from the Chinese mainland were injured on Saturday in a bus accident in Kaohsiung city, southern Taiwan.
Eighteen people, including seven children, were slightly injured, and three others were “observed with apparent wounds,” according to the Taiwan Strait Tourism Association.
The top of the bus, carrying 28 people, hit the top of a tunnel at about 10:04am as the driver took a wrong turn.
There were 25 tourists and a tour leader from east China’s Zhejiang Province on board, as well as a tour guide and a bus driver both from Taiwan.
The tour leader surnamed Hong has stayed in hospital for further observation and treatment, while the others have returned to hotels, according to the Shihe travel agency, which was handling the mainland tour group in Taiwan.
The accident was possibly caused by the driver underestimating the height of the bus, Kaohsiung authorities said, adding that further investigation was under way.
The bus driver told media that he was distracted when discussing the travel schedule with the Taiwan tour guide and went the wrong way. The tour guide had bruises to hands and forehead, the driver was unhurt.
The travel agency said the journey would continue until today as scheduled.
The Kaohsiung accident follows a grisly murder-suicide last year in which 24 mainland tourists were killed in Taiwan, after the driver set their moving bus on fire.
The National Tourism Bureau said it was paying close attention to the incident and called for greater security safeguards for mainland tourists.
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