On the night of the 9th, there was an accident in which four trucks and passenger cars collided one after another on a national highway in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, and two men and women on the truck died.
Around 5:40 pm on the 9th, there was a pile-up accident in which two trucks, a passenger car, and a mini passenger car collided one after another on Route 4, which was congested in Iisawa, Shirakawa City.
In this accident, two Chinese nationals, a man and a woman, who were riding in one of the two trucks hit their heads and chests and were taken to the hospital. He died an hour later, and the man who was driving also died in the early hours of the 10th, about seven hours later.
No one in the other car was injured.
The scene was a straight road with two lanes on each side, and according to the police, four cars, with a passenger car at the front, collided in the lane near the median, and the truck in which the two people died was at the end of the congested convoy. It means that it collided with
Police are investigating the cause of the accident by interviewing people involved.
Due to this accident, National Route 4 was closed to traffic for about 5 hours on the outbound line near the accident site.