4 killed in Tokyo expressway accident

By Jahanzaib Bin Liaquat

Correspondent, SAM Daily Times

TOKYO —Four men were killed and two others injured after a minivan in which they were traveling was crushed between a trailer and a truck on an expressway in Tokyo’s Koto Ward. According to police, all six—five men and one woman—were customs inspectors on their way from Narita to Haneda airport.

The accident occurred at around 2:25 p.m. when the station wagon was hit from behind by a truck being driven by a 70-year-old man. It then collided with the trailer in front, causing extensive damage to the vehicle, killing four of the men.
The driver of the truck, named Takeshi Kanazawa, according to the police saying he wasn’t paying proper attention to the road ahead.