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On October 31, 2021, a private light truck (called the tea-picking truck below, license plate number 3477-ZK) set out from Zhushan Township in Nantou County at 5am. The truck driver was the foreperson of a tea-picking team. Picking up 16 tea pickers along the way, the destination was Siwei Tea Factory in Xinyi Township, Nantou County, where they were going to pick tea. At around 05:44am at the 79-kilometer mark of Provincial Highway 21, the tea-picking truck was hit by a private light truck (called the light truck below, license plate number 7937-ZK) coming from the opposite direction in the southbound lane. The light truck crossed over the central line and could not return to its original lane in time. This accident injured 16 tea pickers on the tea-picking truck and 2 people on the light truck, giving a total of 18 injured.