A total of 34 people, mostly from the Chinese mainland, were wounded in a traffic accident Friday evening in Taiwan's Hualien, and 10 of them are in serious conditions, local media have reported.

One of the seriously wounded passengers recovered signs of life after first aid. Other injured passengers have been taken to neighboring hospitals by local authorities, the reports said.

The accident took place when one of two buses carrying a group of mainland travelers from Taitung to Hualien on a rainy day with low visibility broke sharply to avoid an oncoming vehicle.

The maneuver caused the vehicle to crash into a wall and roll over at the 43 km point of the Taitung-Hualien coastal road.

An official surnamed Chen with Hualien's local firefighting agency told Xinhua that the agency received the accident report at 6:14 p.m. Friday.

Local media reported 32 mainland tourists, a Taiwanese driver and a local tour guide were on the bus when the accident took place.

The mainland travellers have been identified as a group involved in a Peking opera exchange and comprised of people from 18 mainland provinces, invited by a Taipei-based Chinese opera institution.

The group arrived in Taiwan on Feb. 14, and was scheduled to leave on Feb. 20.

The driver, who was not wounded, is now under investigation, reports said.