On the sixth anniversary of a train derailment that killed 18 people and injured more than 200, activists call for more government transparency. Taiwan's east coast has seen multiple train crashes in recent years, including the 2021 Hualien crash that killed 49 people, the deadliest rail accident in Taiwan's history.
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00:00It's been six years since a train traveling at more than 130 kilometers per hour derailed in Yilan County in eastern Taiwan
00:08Killing 18 people and injuring more than 200. It was one of the worst rail disasters in the country's history
00:14on the anniversary of the crash
00:16Some family members of those killed and injured gathered to mark the date and raise concerns about the rail authority
00:23previously known as the TRA
00:26We think Taiwan government lied to everyone and we we need the TRA
00:32to say the truth
00:35to Taiwan people
00:37Responsibility for the accident fell on the driver
00:40He received a prison sentence of more than four years for his decision to turn off a speed control system known as automatic train protection
00:48Earlier this month
00:49He was also found liable to pay half the money owed by the state-owned Taiwan Railway to one of the injured passengers
00:56But the group of victims families says that the speed and timing of the accident in the official government report
01:02Doesn't match with the video of the crash something for which they want an explanation
01:07The crash is just one of several train accidents in Taiwan's East Coast in recent years
01:12Some of them deadly in
01:142021 a truck that fell onto the tracks derailed a train that killed at least 49 people and
01:21Earlier this year landslides caused a partial train derailment in which at least nine people were injured
01:27The government says it has made efforts to improve train safety in light of recent disasters such as strengthening monitoring and
01:35automated safety systems and this year the rail authority changed from a government agency to a state-owned company
01:42Which is aimed at improving management and services?
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01:57Despite these efforts natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons have continued to cause track closures on the East Coast
02:05The country now moves forward hoping that these reforms will be enough to avert the next disaster
02:11Joseph Wu and Chris Gorin for Taiwan plus