Fengyuan passenger bus hit and killed mother and young son. Among them, at the intersection of Xueshi Road and Yingcai Road (behind the picture) in Shibei District, there were 13 accidents this year, but none of them were serious.

(provided by the police)

[Reporter Zhang Ruizhen/Taichung Report] In the middle of the night on the 27th of this month, a passenger bus in Fengyuan, Taichung City, suspected that it did not slow down at the intersection and "jumped over the crosswalk", and hit a family of three who were crossing the road on a zebra crossing. The mother and 1-year-old child died tragically; according to the statistics of the No. 2 Branch of the Taichung City Police Department, there were 13 car accidents at this intersection (excluding the car accident in which the mother and child died), 3 of which were minor car accidents, and 10 of which were collisions with cars and motorcycles with no injuries Damaged small car accident (A3 car accident), this intersection is not one of the "Top 10 Most Accident-Prone Road Sections" in Zhongshi, and the number of car accidents has not reached the "Top 20" list.

The location of the above-mentioned fatal car accident is the intersection of Xueshi Road and Yingcai Road in the North District of Zhongshi City. This intersection usually has a heavy traffic flow. There is China Medical University and its affiliated hospital nearby. Pedestrians, patients, and medical personnel often pass by this intersection. Do we need to add a left-turn signal at the intersection?

Is the street lighting insufficient at night?

The Transportation Bureau of the Zhongshi Government, the Second Branch of the Zhongshi Police Department and other units are expected to conduct surveys tomorrow (30th).

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The traffic team of the Second Branch of the Zhongshi Police Department pointed out that there have been no fatal car accidents (A1 car accidents) in the above-mentioned fatal car accident intersection in recent years. The only fatal car accident.

According to the police, there have been 13 car accidents at this intersection in the past year (this year) (excluding the mother-child death car accident), of which 3 were minor car accidents, and 10 were small car accidents where no one was injured and the damage was caused by simply colliding with a motor vehicle (A3 car accident), this intersection is not one of Zhongshi's "Top 10 Accident-Prone Road Sections", and the number of traffic accidents has not reached the "Top 20" list.