Design flaw led to Taiwan train crash

Tokyo – The Japanese manufacturer of a train that derailed in Taiwan, killing 18 people, said it had discovered a design flaw that led to the accident.

On October 21, a train in Yilan in Taiwan’s northeast came off the rails on a curve while travelling at almost 149 km/h, nearly twice the speed limit.

Eighteen people were killed and 187 injured in the island’s worst rail crash in decades.

Naoki Sato, an official at Nippon Sharyo, said yesterday the company had discovered a flaw in the blueprint for wiring the connection of the train’s automatic train protection safety system to the control station. –