On the 2nd of this month, a light passenger car and a passenger car collided at an intersection in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, killing four people. .
On the night of the 2nd of this month, at an intersection of a city road in the suburbs of Koriyama City, a light passenger car running on a priority road was hit by a passenger car coming from the left and overturned and caught fire, resulting in the death of four people on board. Police arrested Shun Takahashi (25), a company employee in Fukushima City who was driving a passenger car, and are investigating him on suspicion of causing death by negligent driving.
After 7:00 pm on the 7th, the police restricted traffic around the site and investigated the situation in detail in the presence of Takahashi.
There are rice fields around the site, and there is only one security light near the intersection, and there are no street lights or residential lights nearby.
According to the police, Takahashi told investigators, "I thought it was a straight road that I had never traveled before. I didn't notice the intersection or the approaching car until just before the collision." After standing next to a passenger car parked near the point of collision and checking the positional relationship, sitting in the driver's seat and reproducing the position of the seat and eye level, etc., the situation at the time of the accident. I explained to the police.
The police are investigating that they collided because they entered the intersection without looking carefully.