Multi-vehicle crash on Tohoku expressway 70 km from Tokyo leaves 1 dead

Multi-vehicle crash on Tohoku expressway 70 km from Tokyo leaves 1 dead

SAITAMA (Kyodo) -- An accident involving three vehicles occurred on the Tohoku Expressway about 70 kilometers from Tokyo early Thursday morning, killi

At around 5:35 a.m. on the 24th, a call was made to 110 reporting that "there was an accident involving a truck or other vehicle" on the Tohoku Expressway in Hanyu City, Saitama Prefecture. According to the prefectural police and fire department, the accident involved three vehicles, a trailer, a tanker truck, and a light passenger car, and one person in the burning trailer died.