On the 22nd, a bus overturned and caught fire on the Nagoya Expressway in Nagoya City, killing two people and injuring seven people. Interviews with investigative officials revealed that the drive recorder of the following car showed the repeated unstable driving.
Police are investigating the possibility that there may have been some kind of change in the physical condition of the driver.
Shortly after 10:00 a.m. on the 22nd, on the Nagoya Expressway in Kita Ward, Nagoya City, a bus heading from the city center to the prefectural Nagoya Airport overturned and burst into flames. Two of them died, and seven people, including six passengers and a man who was driving the following passenger car, were injured.
According to police, the two deceased were male, and the cause of death is likely to be burnt to death.
The driver, a 55-year-old man, has not been contacted and police are working to confirm his identity.
At first, the bus was running in the overtaking lane on the right side of the two lanes, but from at least a few hundred meters before the accident site, it appeared that it was repeatedly driving unsteadily as if it was stepping on the boundary line, sometimes turning to the left. I learned from interviews with investigative officials that it was recorded on the drive recorder.
After that, it became three lanes, and after entering the lane leading to the "Toyoyama South Exit" on the far right, the running stabilized, but before the exit, it turned left again and collided with the dividing strip between the main line and the main line. is.
There were no brake marks at the scene, so the police are investigating in detail that there may have been some kind of accident in the physical condition of the driver.