{"id":31021,"date":"2021-04-16T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-charged-negligent-homicide"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T13:06:48","slug":"taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-charged-with-negligent-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31021","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan train crash: truck driver charged with negligent homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-nine people died when train hit a railway maintenance vehicle that slid down an embankment<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Taiwan have charged a truck driver with negligent homicide over his role in the island\u2019s worst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/taiwan-train-crash-new-footage-released-as-experts-piece-together-last-moments\">rail disaster<\/a> in decades, which left 49 dead and more than 200 injured.<\/p>\n<p>The crash on 2 April was caused by a railway maintenance truck that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/05\/taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-expresses-deep-remorse-over-disaster\">slid down an embankment<\/a> moments before a packed train came down the line in the eastern coastal city of Hualien.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/taiwan-train-crash-truck-driver-charged-negligent-homicide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-nine people died when train hit a railway maintenance vehicle that slid down an embankmentProsecutors in Taiwan have charged a truck driver with negligent homicide over his role in the island\u2019s worst rail disaster in decades, which left 49 dead a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"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":[41,74,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-train-crashes","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\/31021","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31021\/revisions\/31022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}