Slippery road and reckless driving cause fatal bus crash in Jilin
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-12 21:25 CHANGCHUN -- A slippery road and reckless driving
are to blame for Monday's bus crash in northeastern Jilin Province which killed
three people, including two Taiwanese tourists, said the local government.
The traffic accident occurred at 9:40 am on a highway in Wangqing County when
a 20-member Taiwanese tourist group was traveling from Heilongjiang Province to
Jilin.
The bus first crashed into the rail on the highway and then fell 26 meters
into a river, said Wei Jiuping, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the
Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian.
Two Taiwanese women and the bus driver from the China's mainland were killed.
The dead tourists were 66-year-old Lee Lin Ching-miao and Leu Hsiu-ching, 62.
All the 18 injured Taiwanese tourists were transferred to the Yanbian
Hospital Tuesday to receive better treatment, said Wei Jiuping.
Twelve out of the 18 people were injured seriously, including a couple who
were transferred to the new hospital Tuesday morning and are still in critical
condition, Wei said.
Wang Ying, head of the Wangqing Hospital where the 18 received preliminary
treatment, said 69-year-old Yen Wenhsiong suffered compound injures while his
60-year-old wife, Yang Suiying, suffered fractures.
The husband underwent surgery at the Wangqing Hospital before the transfer,
Wang said.
A special medical taskforce has been working to save the injured people, Wei
said.
The county government had informed the families of all the tourists, and
relatives of the two dead were expected to arrive in Wangqing on Tuesday night.
The tourist group was on the second leg of a ten-day tour through the three
northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning.
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