Major Traffic Accident in Tainan Resulting in 3 Deaths 台17線台南北門段轎車自撞翻覆 3死2傷

A car collided with the bridge guardrail for unknown reasons on the southbound lane of Provincial Highway 17 in Tainan's Beimen section. Four of the five people on board were thrown out of the car, resulting in three deaths and two minor injuries.
 

A major traffic accident occurred on Tainan's Wuwang Bridge in Beimen on Provincial Highway 17 at 2:41 p.m. on the 1st. A car traveling northward collided with a guardrail at high speed for unknown reasons. The vehicle lost control and overturned in the opposite southbound lane. The body of the car was seriously distorted and deformed. A total of four men and one woman were injured in the crash, all of whom were members of a religious organization.

Liu Chuan-fu, Director, Syuejia Police Precinct: “According to our preliminary investigation, the car hit the guardrail first on the northbound lane of Provincial Highway 17 and then came to a stop on the southbound lane.”

According to the police investigation, the driver was a man surnamed Chen born in 2002. The car suddenly hit the bridge guardrail after passing the Xinwei Pump Station in Beimen District. Four of the five passengers were thrown out of the car.

Tai Tso-cheng, Branch Head, Beimen Fire Branch, Tainan: “When we arrived at the scene, the car was already overturned. Five people were reportedly injured at the scene, with one trapped in the car. The other 4 passengers were thrown out of the car.”

A friend traveling in the vehicle behind the crashed car said that they went to a religious gathering on the 1st and were going back to Chiayi's Budai. However, they did not expect an accident to occur on the way back.

Victims' Friend: “We went to a religious festival. They drove themselves on the way back. I was in the car carrying the deity's sedan chair.”

Two people in the car had no vital signs, and the remaining three passengers were slightly or seriously injured and sent to the hospital for treatment. The seriously injured male passenger was declared dead on the evening of the 1st in the hospital. The driver of the vehicle was slightly injured. He has not yet been tested for driving under the influence of alcohol. 

1日下午2時41分，台17線台南北門新圍抽水站五王大橋，發生重大車禍。一輛往北行駛的轎車，因不明原因高速擦撞護欄，車輛失控翻覆到對向南下車道。車頭等處嚴重凹陷，零件散落一地，車體嚴重扭曲變形。車上共4男1女受傷，成員都是轎班人員。

學甲警察分局分局長劉全福指出：「經我們初步調查，是該自小客車在台17線往北的方向，先撞到路邊的護欄之後，後來再停留在南下的車道。」

警方調查，駕駛是91年次的陳姓男子。車子在行經北門區新圍抽水站附近時，突然自撞橋墩，車上5人有4人被拋出車外。

台南北門消防隊分隊長戴佐丞表示：「到現場的時候是車體翻覆，據報現場有5位人員受傷，一位是在車體受困、其他4位人員已經噴飛車外。」

坐在後方車輛的同行友人表示，他們昨天一同出陣，回程要返回嘉義布袋，沒想到返程途中發生事故。

友人說：「我們是去出陣，我們要回來時，他們自己開車，我是坐載神轎的車。」

車上有兩人在當場沒有呼吸心跳，其餘3人分別受到輕重傷，送醫治療。而重傷的男乘客在1日晚間搶救無效，宣告不治。小客車駕駛則受到輕傷，是否酒駕則尚待檢測。