{"id":30676,"date":"2021-04-07T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/taiwan-train-crash-new-footage-released-as-experts-piece-together-last-moments"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:18:08","slug":"taiwan-train-crash-new-footage-released-as-experts-piece-together-last-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30676","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan train crash: new footage released as experts piece together last moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Train hit vehicle at more than 120km\/h, about a minute after the truck rolled onto the tracks, crash experts say<\/p>\n<p>The runaway truck that caused Taiwan\u2019s worst rail disaster in decades slid onto the train tracks just over a minute before an express train came through at more than 120km\/h, investigators have said, as newly released footage revealed the drivers\u2019 attempts to brake.<\/p>\n<p>At least 50 people were killed and around 200 injured on Friday last week when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/taiwan-train-crash-many-injured-at-start-of-holiday-weekend\">the eight-car train hit a construction vehicle<\/a> that had rolled down an embankment, derailing the carriages as they entered a stretch of tunnel just outside the east coast city of Hualien.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/taiwan-train-crash-new-footage-released-as-experts-piece-together-last-moments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train hit vehicle at more than 120km\/h, about a minute after the truck rolled onto the tracks, crash experts sayThe runaway truck that caused Taiwan\u2019s worst rail disaster in decades slid onto the train tracks just over a minute before an express train &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions\/30677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}