TOKYO, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — Twelve folks had been injured in a visitors accident involving three automobiles on Friday within the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, in response to native media.
At round 8:40 a.m. native time, a tractor-trailer veered into the alternative lane of a nationwide freeway in Furano City and hit a bus head-on, with a passenger automotive additionally concerned within the crash, in response to media stories.
Of these injured, the bus driver and 9 international vacationers aboard had been transferred to hospital with non-life threatening accidents, the police mentioned.
The drivers of the opposite two automobiles additionally sustained accidents.
The police famous that on the time of the accident, the floor of the two-lane highway was coated with packed snow and ice in central Hokkaido.