{"id":30588,"date":"2021-04-05T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/05\/taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-expresses-deep-remorse-over-disaster"},"modified":"2021-04-05T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:27:05","slug":"taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-expresses-deep-remorse-over-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30588","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan train crash: truck driver expresses &#8216;deep remorse&#8217; over disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintenance worker issues tearful apology as investigations continue into what caused vehicle to slide down embankment<\/p>\n<p>A maintenance worker whose runaway truck sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>\u2019s worst rail disaster in recent decades made a tearful apology on Sunday as investigators said the train driver had little time to react to the collision.<\/p>\n<p>At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/taiwan-train-crash-many-injured-at-start-of-holiday-weekend\">50 people were killed<\/a> and more than 200 were injured in Friday\u2019s crash, which sent a packed eight-carriage train hurtling into the sides of a narrow tunnel near the eastern coastal city of Hualien.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/05\/taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-expresses-deep-remorse-over-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintenance worker issues tearful apology as investigations continue into what caused vehicle to slide down embankmentA maintenance worker whose runaway truck sparked Taiwan\u2019s worst rail disaster in recent decades made a tearful apology on Sunday as in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588\/revisions\/30604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}