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On Tuesday evening, a 73-year-old woman in Tainan crossing the street got hit by a truck making a left turn. She immediately got dragged underneath the vehicle. Passers-by stopped to lift the vehicle and free her, and soon afterwards, she lost her vital signs. Fortunately, her pulse was restored by rescuers.

The ambulance rushes to the scene. Someone just got hit by a vehicle and is stuck at the bottom.

The victim, who’s wearing a pink shirt, was dragged to the bottom of the truck. A dozen passers-by lifted the vehicle with their bare hands to free her.

Member of public
Eyewitness
Lots of people helped lift the vehicle. When I saw that they’d succeeded in lifting the vehicle, the ambulance arrived.

Voice of Lee Chen-ping
Tainan City Fire Department
When the ambulance was about to leave, her condition suddenly deteriorated. She lost her breathing and pulse. So I got off the vehicle and helped the rescuer who was trying to save her.

The woman who was hit by a pickup truck and got dragged underneath the vehicle even lost her vital signs soon after she was freed. Fortunately, rescuers were able to restore her pulse before sending her to the hospital for treatment.

The accident happened in Tainan’s Yongkang District, a little after 7 p.m. The 73-year-old woman surnamed Wu was crossing the street on the pedestrian crossing when she got hit by the truck driven by a man surnamed Lu, who failed to yield to pedestrians and caused the near-fatal crash.

Hung Pai-liang
Yongkang Precinct, Tainan City Police
As of today, since the beginning of 2026, our precinct has dealt with 187 cases penalizing drivers who failed to yield to passengers. According to Paragraph 4, Article 44 of the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act, a car driver that did not pause to allow pedestrians to cross first and committed an accident that resulted in injury, they shall be fined from NT$18,000 to NT$36,000 and have their license revoked for one to two years.

The truck driver didn’t stop for the woman on the pedestrian crossing and hit her directly, causing near-fatal injury. The police reiterated that drivers should always give way to pedestrians and not threaten their safety and lives.

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