NAGANO, Apr 26 (News On Japan) –
A passenger automotive was captured dashing throughout the body from left to proper by a safety digicam simply moments earlier than a deadly crash in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, that claimed the lives of 4 vocational faculty college students.
The accident occurred shortly after 12:30 p.m. on April twenty fourth alongside an embankment street that runs parallel to the Tenryu River.
Footage exhibits the car racing previous an space about 500 meters earlier than the crash web site at an especially excessive pace. Even when passing a white mini-truck, the automotive didn’t seem to decelerate.
With no facet roads between the purpose captured on video and the crash web site, authorities consider the car was touring at roughly 120 kilometers per hour.
The automotive was carrying 4 second-year college students from the Automobile Maintenance Department of Nagano Prefectural Iida Technical College, all of whom died within the crash.
On April twenty fifth, a buddy of Ren Sugisaki, one of many victims, visited the location to put flowers in remembrance.
“We still had so much we could have done together… He was only 20 years old,” stated the grieving buddy.
A neighborhood resident who makes use of the identical street day by day commented, “Even so, people tend to speed here quite a bit. We’re very careful, but whenever cars approach, we always pull over and stop.”
Given the excessive pace concerned, police are conducting an in depth investigation into the circumstances main as much as the accident.
Source: FNN