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Staff writer, with CNA
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A tourist who was struck and injured by a train in a scenic area of New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) on Monday might be fined for trespassing on the tracks, the Railway Police Bureau said yesterday.
The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a call at 4:37pm on Monday about an incident in Shifen (十分), a tourist destination on the Pingsi Railway Line.
After arriving on the scene, paramedics treated a woman in her 30s for a 3cm to 5cm laceration on her head, the department said.
Police are pictured at the Pingsi Railway Line’s Shifen Station in New Taipei City yesterday.
Photo courtesy of a member of the public via CNA
She was taken to a hospital in Keelung, it said.
Surveillance footage from a store on Shifen Old Street showed that the woman, a tourist from the Philippines, had given her phone to a friend to photograph her.
The woman stepped onto the tracks to be photographed with an approaching train in frame and was struck as she spread her arms in a pose, the video showed.
The woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries to the head, chest and pelvis, and remained conscious and responsive after the incident, the bureau said.
However, she might be fined as stipulated in Article 57 of the Railway Act (鐵路法) for trespassing on the tracks, it said.
The law says that a fine, if issued, would range from NT$10,000 to NT$50,000.
