On the night of the 2nd, a passenger car and a light car collided at an intersection on a city road in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, and four people who were on board in the light car were found dead.
Police arrested a 25-year-old company employee who was driving a passenger car on the spot on suspicion of negligent driving injury and are investigating the details of the accident.
Around 8:00 pm on the 2nd, a passenger car and a light car collided at the intersection of the city road in Ohira-cho, Koriyama City, and the overturned light car caught fire.
The fire was extinguished after about 30 minutes, but the bodies of four people who were in the light car were found.
Police arrested Shun Takahashi (25), a company employee in Fukushima City who was driving a passenger car, on the spot on suspicion of negligent driving injury.
The scene was an unsignalized intersection of city roads on the outskirts of Koriyama City.