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A scooter driver barely dodged a tragic end in Taoyuan last week, after the strong winds of Typhoon Bavi sent several huge sheets of metal crashing down on the street. It is thought that the debris came from a construction site in the rooftop of a nearby building. The sheets fell just a couple of steps in front of the scooter. And that wasn’t the only near-disaster in Northern Taiwan. Over in New Taipei, several pieces of a building’s façade were ripped right off the wall and sent crashing down on the parked scooters below. Miraculously, nobody was in the area when it happened.

A scooter driver was cruising down the road, nothing amiss, when out of nowhere, huge sheets of metal came crashing down. One second later, and it could’ve been the end for the motorist. A heart-stopping fright for sure.

Local
Yangmei District
Terrifying! It might’ve been the typhoon. Maybe the metal sheets were old, and the wind ripped them off.

- They must have come from that building, I think.

The near-disaster happened on Zhongxing Road in Taoyuan’s Yangmei District. Construction was underway on the rooftop of a building in the area. It is thought the materials were not properly secured, and were blown loose by the strong winds. Thankfully, nobody was crushed by the metal.

- Maybe the strong wind blew them over. Or maybe they were hoisting them up.
- No, they did that on Thursday.
- They weren’t lifting them? There’s no crane here now.
- No, no. They finished the day before. Wednesday or Thursday.

And it’s not only metal falling from the sky. Over in New Taipei’s Xinzhuang District, three huge brick ornaments on a building’s façade were ripped off the wall and slammed onto several scooters parked below.

Voice of scooter owner
Scooter got damaged
I saw it when I was about to get on my scooter. Chunks of the façade came off and destroyed the headlights completely. The building management told me to leave my phone number, but they haven’t called me! Not yesterday nor today! They hadn’t even fenced the area off last night, and they let people keep walking past.

The crash site has since been cordoned off, and warnings have been put up. But the scooter owner says the most infuriating thing is the response from management. On a social media post he said, “It was just a scooter this time, but what if it had crushed someone?”

Voice of scooter owner
Scooter got damaged
It’s not the first time that the façade crumbled. If this is their attitude when a vehicle gets damaged, what would it be if a person got hurt?

Lee Yu-sheng
Lawyer
In the case that tiles or other items fall off the façade and damage someone’s property, the law presumes the committee to be negligent in its management duties if it cannot produce evidence that it fulfilled its maintenance responsibilities. And, if they failed to put up no-parking signs, the committee would be held civilly liable for compensation.

The scooter owner says he just hopes the building’s management will take the matter seriously in order to prevent a potential tragedy.

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