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Shanghai Subway Trains Crash
Yesterday afternoon, two trains crashed in Shanghai subway line 10. Till now, 271 people have been injured without dead.
At 14:10 on September 27 (Beijing Time), because of the equipment failure at Xintiandi station of metro line 10, the subway trains slammed to brake. Then the section between Jiaotong University and East Nanjing Road was scheduled artificially. At 14:51, two subway trains collided at Yuyuan station, the very central of Shanghai.
The signaling fault was supposed to be one of the accident cause. The signal system provider of metro line 10 is CASCO, and the same train signal system was used in Wenzhou train crash accident.
Although the metro line 10 resumed operating 4 hours after the crash, part of the line (from Yili Road to North Sichuan Road) is out of service for further investigation.
Drive in Shanghai
It is much common to rent a car when you visit another city in developed countries, but it may be not true if you visit Shanghai for the first time, or for a short period. It is not a good idea to drive in Shanghai.
As many other cities in China, many roads in Shanghai are under construction in a rapid speed. The road condition is complicated that even the latest updated GPS can not meet the real traffic information.
