Four people, including a 12-year old boy, died in a crash involving a bus and a car in Yunlin County yesterday, while 22 others were injured, police said.
The boy and three others had no vital signs when emergency crews arrived at the scene of the crash on the Formosa Freeway (Freeway No. 3) near Douliou City (斗六), police said.
The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, while the three people without vital signs, one of them the boy’s mother, were pronounced dead at hospitals, police said.
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A tour bus and a car collided while traveling south on the freeway, police said, adding that the details of the crash are being investigated.
The bus was transporting employees from a technology company based in Hsinchu County and their relatives, police said, adding that the boy and his mother, 48, were onboard.
The people on the bus were on their way to an amusement park in Yunlin, police added.
The other two who died were traveling in the car — a man and a woman aged 52 and 61 respectively, police said.
Following the crash, two lanes of southbound traffic were closed, causing a traffic jam that stretched 4km, the Central Region Branch Office of the Freeway Bureau said.
Video footage taken by people in vehicles passing the crash, apparently soon after it happened, showed a wrecked light-gray car wrapped around the front of the bus, which had damage down its side, including a blown-out side window near the rear.
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