US VISITING PROFESSOR KILLED BY BUS|美知名學者訪台 在專用道被公車撞死

On July 10, Bruce Bridgeman, a visiting professor from the University of California, Santa Cruz was struck and killed by a bus while on a pedestrian crossing on Renai Road in Taipei. The crossing had no English warnings to alert pedestrians to the fact that the buses in just one lane run opposite to all the other one-way lanes on the road. Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je said he knows most signs in the city are in Chinese and he would work on making road signs more international in the future. Opposite the Howard Plaza Hotel on Renai Road, buses in one lane run in the opposite direction to traffic in all the other lanes. A 71- year old American professor crossed the road on July 10 without realizing this and was killed by a bus while on the pedestrian crossing. ==CHANG YU-HAO Taipei City Police Daan Station Chief== This foreigner received a serious blow to the head and chest. ==LIN KUANG-HSIEN Taipei City Police Traffic Division== We will take the video recorder from the bus and check it and give it to investigators for clarification on road signs at the time This section of road has no English signs and Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je admitted that it was not an international-level environment. ==KO WEN-JE Taipei City Mayor== Currently many of our road signs are only in Chinese, they are not international, maybe foreigners don't understand or don't notice that the traffic in that lane was opposite to all the other lanes. ==CHANG JER-YANG Commissioner, Taipei City Govt, Dept. of Transport.== Maybe if we added a 'look around' or may be a 'look right and left' to remind you to look at all sides before walking, we could add those sort of signs Statistics from the Taipei City Police Traffic Division show that there was one accident in the first six months of the year preceding this death, so they would not consider changing the single lane which runs contrary to all the other lanes. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 美國知名心理學者 布里吉曼來台演講，10號在仁愛路公車專用道上，遭到巴士撞擊身亡，由於案發現場，完全沒有英文的交通標誌，引發爭議。對此，台北市長柯文哲表示，台北市很多交通標誌都是中文，不是很國際化，會研究補強方式。 從福華飯店過馬路到對面，民眾多半會注意仁愛路上，有逆向通行的公車專用道，可是71歲的美國知名的心理學者布里吉曼，10號過馬路時，卻在公車專用道上，遭到巴士撞擊身亡。布里吉曼是美國加州大學聖克魯茲分校的心理學教授，擁有史丹福大學博士學位，他受台北醫學大學之邀來台演講。 ==台北市警大安分局交通中隊長 張育豪== 這個外籍人士 現場就受到一個很嚴重的撞擊 主要的地方 是在頭部跟腹部 ==台北市警交通大隊事故組長 林洸賢== 我們會將公車上面的行車紀錄器 去做一個調閱蒐證 提供給檢方 做一個釐清 當時的號誌狀態 不過這個路段，完全沒有英文的交通告示，市長柯文哲坦言，確實很不國際化。 ==台北市長 柯文哲== 我們目前很多交通的標誌 或告示 都是中文的 這不是很國際化 也許外國人看不懂 沒有注意到 那個是一個單向的車道 它又有一個逆向的公車道 ==台北市交通局局長 張哲揚== 加一個比方說look around 或者說 look right and left 就是說 提醒你 就是四周看看再走 這個標示要加 是可以的 根據北市警交通大隊統計，上半年仁愛路公車專用道路段，只發生過一件交通事故致死案件，發生率其實不高，仁愛路單向通行不會改變。 記者陳佳鑫 張梓嘉 台北報導