ROAD SAFETY/Taichung bus driver gets 16-month sentence for killing woman, infant
09/09/2023 04:57 PM
The Taichung District Court has said that it had imposed "severe punishment" - a prison term of 16 months - on a bus driver who hit and killed a woman and her infant son due to not giving way to pedestrians.
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