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> Taipei, May 3 The parents of an American national killed in a train accident in Hualien last month on Monday called on the Taiwan Railway Administration to take legal responsibility for the tragedy that saw 49 deaths and nearly 200 injuries in order to ensure passenger safety and prevent such tragedies from happening again.
> In an open letter read by their lawyer in Taipei, the parents of Senead Short, a 24-year-old English teacher killed in the April 2 incident, said they appreciate the up to NT$30 million compensation promised to the families of victims of the incident.
> Short's parents said they are not interested in financial gain from any compensation, adding that the money should be used to set up a foundation in their daughter's name to help people.
> In the letter, Short's parents said their daughter had just begun her Fulbright scholarship teaching in Taiwan in January and had hoped to one day pursue a diplomatic career and become an ambassador for the U.S. Their daughter was a humanitarian, a talented artist, a magnificent ballerina, a studied linguist, who spoke French, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, an honor student, an ardent reader, and a world traveler.
> According to New Power Party Lawmaker Wang Wan-yu and the parents' lawyer in Taiwan, Chen Meng-hsiu, who has been tasked by Short's parents to take charge of subsequent legal action targeting TRA, the parents are extremely angry at TRA as it has only been two years since its last major accident.
> The April 2 crash occurred when a southbound TRA express train hit a crane truck on the track near the entrance to Qingshui Tunnel in Hualien County.
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First I want to apologize for my poor English. I'm a Taiwanese high school student,and in my country there is an irritating problem threatening thousands of life. A train in Taiwan overturned and caused many passengers died.The MOTC,however,shifted the all responsibilities to the driver.But in fact,the driver reported the problem to his supervisor immediately,before the miserable accident happened.And the damn supervisor told him to keep driving.Btw there was a system called ATP ,which could lower the speed to ensure the train could safely function.At the moment the ATP lowered the speed,which made the train to increase and decrease in speed.The driver had no choice but turned ATP down.But the monitors,installed in the train station's office and would notify the supervisor when ATP was turned off,was OFFLINE.It's how a tragedy happened. A interpolation parliament held a few days ago in our country's Legislative Yuan pointed out the problem,but the most irritating was the reaction of the MOTC's vice minister,he just kept dodging the question.The legislator in charge of the interpolation even found what the MOTC's primary minister said in press conference held after the tragedy was lie.Now the MOTC is suppressing a staff who has revealed some information to the media. Please share this post to your friends to let the irritating event be known by more people(an influential media would be better),and I hope the MOTC can tell the truth in public and stop telling bullshit.Thank for your reading.
