Two years earlier, in October 2004, a Hong Kong tour group was involved in an accident on Taipei County Highway 102, tragically ending in five deaths and 36 injuries.
時間再推到兩年前（2004 年 10 月），香港旅遊團也在台北縣九份瑞金公路上發生交通意外，造成 5 死 36 人輕重傷的慘劇。