TOKYO, Aug 15 (NNN-NHK) – Two deaths were confirmed, after a head-on car collision on an expressway took place, in the north-east Japanese prefecture of Tochigi, local police reported.
The accident took place at 6:30 a.m. local time, on the southbound lanes of the Tohoku Expressway, in Nasushiobara, where two children were also injured.
According to local police and fire department officials, a kei car, or Japan’s lightest expressway-legal motor vehicle, was reported driving in the wrong direction on the expressway, before colliding head-on with a passenger car.
Both drivers of the vehicles died in the crash, while a nine-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl, who were passengers in one of the vehicles, sustained head injuries.
Local police are currently investigating the exact cause and details of the accident.– NNN-NHK
