YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A speed control system was not functioning when a train in Taiwan crashed killing 18 people and injuring 187, in the island's worst rail disaster in decades, a top investigator said on Tuesday.
It was not clear whether the system, called automatic train protection, had switched off by itself or had been manually disabled before the accident on Sunday, the head of a government-led investigation team, Wu Ze-cheng, told Reuters.
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