Woman Killed After Deer Strike on Shin-Tomei Expressway
AICHI –
A 22-year-old woman was killed late on October 17 after a truck rear-ended a car that had stopped following a collision with a deer on the Shin-Tomei Expressway in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture.
According to police, the accident occurred at around 11:50 p.m. near the entrance to a tunnel on the expressway’s inbound lanes, where a passenger car had stopped on the roadside shoulder before being struck from behind by a truck.
A man and woman in their 20s who had been traveling in the passenger car had exited the vehicle before the collision. However, the impact pushed the stopped car forward, striking the two people outside.
The woman, identified as Kanami Naito, 22, of Shizuoka City, was killed in the accident. The man escaped without injury.
Police said the man told investigators that their car had collided with a deer, prompting them to stop on the roadside.
The truck driver, Tomoki Matsushita, 46, of Chiba Prefecture, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident.
Source: FNN
