Overview
- In Chiba City’s Makuhari district, police say a boy using a signalized crosswalk on National Route 14 was struck in succession by a passenger car and then a wagon and later died at a hospital.
- Investigators have interviewed the 45-year-old passenger-car driver from Chiba’s Wakaba Ward and the 49-year-old wagon driver from Ichikawa as they work to confirm the boy’s identity and the cause.
- In Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, a head-on collision at an intersection killed the 7-year-old son of driver Nagi Fujiwara after he was taken to a hospital.
- Hanamaki Police say Fujiwara approached from a city road with a stop sign, and six others had minor injuries, including both drivers and four children aged 16, 10, 4, and an infant.
- The back-to-back deaths focus attention on how an intersection stop sign and a crosswalk signal figure into police reviews of driver actions and roadway controls.