Truck crashes into a light passenger car at Shin Tomei Expressway 1 high school student killed 4 injured Aichi September 20, 11:45
On the morning of the 20th, on the Shin Tomei Expressway in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, a high school boy who was in a mini car died when a truck collided with a mini car in front of him, and a total of four people were injured.
Before 3:30 am on the 20th, a medium-sized truck collided with a light passenger car running in front of the Shin-Tomei Expressway in Kakatsugawa-cho, Okazaki City, on the down line of the Nukata Tunnel.
In this accident, the light passenger car rolled over, and Yuto Shimizu (16), a first-year high school student in Fuefuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture, who was in the back seat, hit his head hard and was taken to a hospital in Okazaki City. He died about two hours later.
In addition, Shimizu's parents who were in a mini car, his sister in the second grade of junior high school, and a 66-year-old man in Yokohama who was driving a truck were injured and were taken to the hospital.
All of them are conscious and there is no difference in life.
According to police, the site is near the middle of a two-lane, two-kilometer-long tunnel with good visibility.
The police are investigating the situation at that time and the cause of the accident in detail by talking to a man who was driving a truck.