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The crash site. At 12:25 p.m., April 19, 2019, Kozo Iizuka, the 87-year-old male driver of a Toyota Prius, and the retired Head of the Industrial Science and Technology Agency of the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), caused a traffic crash at an intersection near Tokyo Metro Higashi-Ikebukuro Station in the Higashi Ikebukuro ...
Per population, fatalities are 1/4 in 2008 of that of 1970, and per kilometer, one-sixth in 2007 of the 1970 rate. The total for 2012 was 4,411 deaths. [1] and for 2017, it has dropped to 3,694 deaths, of 2,020 involved a driver over 65 or 54.7% of the total, with sharply rising rates of deadly accidents with each decade of driver age after 65. [2]
Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [ 3 ] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
Car All-Japan Formula Three Championship practice Iso's car spun on the 1st Curve and stopped on the grass. While he was walking away, he was struck by another car, killing him instantly. [15] [16] Kengo Kiyama 10 June 1983 Spoon Motorcycle 200 km of Suzuka qualifying While approaching the Spoon curve, Kiyama crashed and was killed instantly. [17]
The 2019 Tokyo car attack was a vehicle-ramming attack that occurred on January 1, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. 21-year-old Kazuhiro Kusakabe told authorities he intentionally rammed into pedestrians crowded into narrow Takeshita Street in Harajuku district as a terrorist attack in retaliation for the execution of Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult members.
The massive Japan Airlines plane collision is the ‘first real test for a modern aircraft’ under distress and Airbus’s new lightweight carbon-fibre fuselege may have protected passengers from ...
Ridge Hannemann Alkonis (born 1988) is a United States Navy lieutenant who caused a fatal car crash in Fujinomiya in May 2021 that resulted in the deaths of two Japanese citizens. A Japanese court found Alkonis, who at the time was a weapons officer aboard the USS Benfold at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, guilty of negligent driving in 2022 and ...