On the 22nd, a bus overturned and caught fire on the Nagoya Expressway in Nagoya City, killing 2 people and injuring 7 people. I searched.
There were no brake marks at the scene of the accident, and the bus had caused the accident without any signs of sudden steering wheel operation, so the police are also investigating whether there was any abnormality in the physical condition of the driver at the time. increase.
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.
The driver, a 55-year-old man, has not been contacted and police are working to identify the body.
Around 9 am on the 23rd, the police began searching the head office and sales office of Aoi Kotsu, a bus operating company in Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture, on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in death or injury.
Of these, six investigators searched for about an hour at the headquarters and seized two cardboard boxes of materials.
The site of the accident is a place where the main two lanes of the expressway and the lane leading to the "Toyoyama South Exit" where you get off to go to the airport are divided.
According to officials, the bus was in the lane leading to the rightmost exit of the three lanes, but before the exit it began to move toward the main road on the left and collided with the dividing strip in between. .
There were no brake marks at the scene, and the bus caused the accident without any sudden steering maneuvers.
At the time of the accident, the police will investigate whether there was any change in the physical condition of the driver, and will also analyze the materials seized in the search on the 23rd in detail and investigate the actual working conditions of the driver.