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Three students injured after car hits footbridge in Taichung

A car crashed into a pedestrian footbridge and struck three university students running in North District, Taichung, early on Monday. Police arrested the 21-year-old driver after an on-site saliva test returned positive for etomidate, and prosecutors have filed a request to detain him. The full extent of the injuries sustained by the three students has not been publicly specified.

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The sources disagree.
Each position is reported as its publisher stated it. We do not reconcile them.
3 differing positions reported on casualties across 5 publishers; unresolved.
  • pts3大學生
  • ettoday3台體大生
  • ltn撞傷3晨跑體大生
  • newtalk父與3歲幼女倒地送醫
  • mirrormedia致死4人
5 differing positions reported on attribution across 5 publishers; unresolved.
  • pts男子
  • ettoday毒駕男
  • ltn毒駕
  • newtalk中壢警
  • mirrormedia主嫌
5 differing positions reported on location across 5 publishers; unresolved.
  • pts3大學生
  • ettoday台
  • ltn天橋
  • newtalk台中豐原
  • mirrormedia屏東
3 differing positions reported on timing across 3 publishers; unresolved.
  • ltn晨跑
  • ettoday相隔14hrs
  • newtalk隔日
2 differing positions reported on status across 5 publishers; unresolved.
  • pts駕車自撞
  • ettoday聲押
  • ltn撞
  • newtalk擦撞
  • mirrormedia遭羈押
WhereTaichung
24.147, 120.684 ±10 km
First reported22 days ago
Published2026-10-05 08:23 UTC
Occurred2026-10-03
Sources5
How this travelled.
Reports24Independent tellings5
5 independently corroborated tellings.

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Global Event Monitor. Three students injured after car hits footbridge in Taichung. 2026-10-05T08:23:36.360Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:4542. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-10-05/industrial-accident-taichung-e79db829

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