Event Monitor
Sign in
Monitor · Structural failure
Reported

School bus driver falls ill in Chiayi County before student halts vehicle

A 70-year-old school bus driver fell ill while transporting more than twenty high school students in Zhuqi Township, Chiayi County, striking a parked car and utility poles. A high school student brought the vehicle to a stop by applying the handbrake and removing the ignition key after noticing the driver was incapacitated, allowing the passengers to exit safely without reported injuries. The driver was hospitalised and regained consciousness, with medical staff suspecting heat exhaustion.

Follow this storyGet alerts about Taiwan–South China SeaWe write to you when this story changes – not for everything we publish.
Our summary of the disagreement.
The reports disagree on the timing and extent of the collision: two outlets report the incident occurred on the evening of the 10th and damaged either one or three utility poles, while another states the crash happened on the evening of the 13th.

We do not yet count events at this place: that needs at least 3 recorded here, and we have 1.

WhereTaiwan
24.367, 121.056 ±400 km
First reported41 days ago
Published2026-09-14 12:34 UTC
Occurred2026-09-10
Sources4
How this travelled.
Reports5Independent tellings4
4 independently corroborated tellings.

Corrections and updates

No published correction or update is recorded. This does not reconstruct changes made before correction records were kept.

Cite this record

Global Event Monitor. School bus driver falls ill in Chiayi County before student halts vehicle. 2026-09-14T12:34:58.704Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:2235. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-09-14/%E6%A0%A1%E8%BB%8A%E9%A7%95%E9%A7%9B%E7%96%91%E7%86%B1%E8%A1%B0%E7%AB%AD%E4%BB%8D%E4%B8%8A%E8%B7%AF%E9%87%80%E6%93%A6%E6%92%9E-%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F%E6%A9%9F%E8%AD%A6%E7%86%84%E7%81%AB%E5%B9%B8%E7%84%A1%E4%BA%BA%E5%8F%97%E5%82%B7-e8dbf1f9

BibTeX · RIS · CSV · JSON · Corrections and updates · Captured versions

/event/2026-09-14/校車駕駛疑熱衰竭仍上路釀擦撞-學生機警熄火幸無人受傷-e8dbf1f9 Back to the stream

Ask about this event