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In a shocking scene, a row of scooters were caught in a chain collision when a car drove into them from the opposite direction. The driver has been identified as a woman surnamed Chen, who’s just gotten off work early Monday morning at the Southern Taiwan Science Park and was supposedly fatigued at the time. The crash killed one man and seven other scooter drivers.
This dashcam footage shows a row of scooters on the road, when suddenly, one driver notices something unusual and quickly swerves aside. No one else did, and soon afterwards, a car appears in their direction and crashes into the row of scooters, sending vehicles and drivers flying.
A motorbike lies strewn in the middle of the road, surrounded by traffic cones. Moving forward, more debris is to be seen all over. Paramedics rush to send the injured to the hospital.
Amid the chaos are numerous scooters that have been knocked over. The driver that caused this accident was behind the wheels of this black car, which has also been deformed. A spider web-like pattern crept across the windshield, suggesting great impact.
The chain collision happened in Anding District, Tainan at around 7 Monday morning, about 1km off the embankment near a Xigang Bridge exit to Guanliao. The driver, a woman surnamed Chen, had just gotten off work at Southern Taiwan Science Park, presumably fatigued. She drove in the opposite lane and ran directly into the row of scooters, causing one man to lose his breath and heartbeat, and left seven others with injuries. The one 35-year-old man could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead.
Liao Hsin-chih
Police officer
The driver surnamed Chen was driving on the road along the embankment from east to west. For unknown reasons, she drove in the opposite direction and crashed into several scooters driving from west to east. As a result, several scooter drivers were hospitalized. Our initial findings suggest that none of the drivers in the incident were driving under the influence.
A long trail of tire marks was left on the road by the car driver, while a scooter she ran into was left in shambles. The police said that the driver herself was not under the influence of alcohol. It remains to be clarified why the driver ended up causing this chain collision that killed one and injured seven.
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