4 dead in car crash in central Japan

TOKYO: Four automobile mechanic trainees were killed after their car crashed into a water gate on a river in central Japan on Thursday, local media reported.

At around 12:35 p.m. local time, the passenger vehicle driven by Ryosei Ikeda, 20, skidded off the road on the Tenryu River in Iida, Nagano Prefecture, killing all four people in the car, Kyodo News reported.

According to Hirokazu Aizawa, principal of the Iida Vocational Training School where the four men were enrolled, they attended class in the morning and the accident occurred during their lunch break.

A nursing care worker in her 40s who lives nearby said, “I drive there carefully as there are blind spots,” according to the report.

The police are investigating the accident.

-Xinhua