TOKYO (TR) – A motorcyclist concerned in an accident with a automotive on an expressway in Chuo Ward on Thursday survived a subsequent plunge right into a river beneath, police mentioned.
According to TBS News (Dec. 12), the 62-year-old motorcyclist was concerned in an accident with a automotive altering lanes close to the Edobashi Junction on the Shuto Expressway at simply earlier than 7 p.m.
The impression of the collision despatched the motorcyclist off the deck of the expressway, inflicting him to plunge 20 meters into the water beneath.
The man managed to swim to shore on his personal and was subsequently transported to a hospital. He was acutely aware and suffered minor accidents, police mentioned.
The expressway close to the place the accident befell has a low facet wall. Tokyo police are at the moment investigating the circumstances that led to the accident.