Overview
- In Tamba on March 15 around 4 p.m., two kei cars collided head-on on National Route 175, leaving a male driver in his 60s and a female passenger in her 70s dead.
- An 80-something man driving the other car suffered serious injuries, including fractures near the pelvis, according to Tamba police.
- Officers say the deceased driver's vehicle may have strayed into the oncoming lane on the one-lane-each-way road, and the cause is under investigation.
- A day earlier in Akashi around 4:50 p.m., first-grader Kuno Yuito, 7, was fatally struck on a sidewalk by a car turning right into a convenience-store parking lot.
- Police arrested driver Kazuo Morooka, 58, at the scene, recorded his statement that he failed to notice the child, and are investigating on a negligent-causing-death basis.