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Two people were killed after a two small cars collided head-on along a national highway in Ino Town, Kochi Prefecture, on Sunday.
According to police, the accident occurred on National Route 194 at around 10 a.m. Fuji TV reported. A man and woman from Ehime Prefecture were killed in the accident. They were identified as Yoshikazu Saito, 72, a resident of Ehime Prefecture’s Imabari City, and Hiromi Imai, 57, a friend who was in the back seat, died. Chizuru Saito, 56, the wife of the deceased driver, survived the accident but remains in a critical condition, police said.
The other car’s driver — a man from Kochi City — is also in a critical condition. Two passengers in his car sustained minor injuries.
© Japan Today
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Vince Black
Another accident caused by an unfit elderly driver?
rgcivilian1
@Vince Black, don't jump to conclusions as the younger driver could have lost control or been on the phone. The article does not provide enough details to say unfit elderly driver or the cause.
Alex Einz
so another elderly driving wrong way?
Disillusioned
Ah, K-cars! If you have an accident in one, you and anybody else in the car are dead! They are like driving a motorised aluminium can! No crumple zones and no side impact safety. It should be no surprise they cannot be exported to 'developed' countries.
garypen
Kei car = Death box
Samit Basu
@Disillusioned
Smart and Korean Kei cars(Fully US NHTSA and Euro-NCAP crash standard compliant) prove Kei cars need not be death traps. What Japan needs to do is stop being a Jalapagos nation and apply same auto crash standard on Kei cars as regular cars. Europeans and Koreans can do it, but you are telling me Japanese can't do it?
extanker
It's a safe assumption. Until more info is released, I'm going to assume it's just another case of an elderly driver lost control of their car that people will make excuses for.
albaleo
Should that be Ehime Prefecture?
Aged 72? These days in Shikoku, I suspect people of that age take on more demanding tasks than driving.