75-year-old woman killed in hit-and-run in Aichi
AICHI —
A 75-year-old woman was killed Monday night in a hit-and-run in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture. According to police investigations, Yukiko Nakao was hit by a white car around 9 p.m. while she was crossing an intersection on a green light.
Police said the driver of the car ignored the red light and are searching for the vehicle using video footage from surveillance cameras.
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seesaw
First, a woman and baby died in toilet, not the hit-and-run...also in Aichi...perhaps the Buddhist Monks should offer more prayers for safety...
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Disillusioned
Perhaps the cops should get out of their kobans and start dishing out fines and suspending licenses for these butt-holes running red lights.
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Spidey
Red lights have absolutely NO MEANING in this country! So much so that the green lights are delayed 2-3 seconds before activating to account for the "red light runners." And the government has allowed this conditioned response to develop due to the complete complacency of the "law" enforcement officials.
Truly a bass ackwards country.
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likeitis
You should get out a stop watch and actually time those lights. Yellow is pretty short most of time as far as I can see.
The real problem is that the speed limits are insanely low. Very few people obey those limits. Yet, the yellow lights are timed as if they do. Big problem. ESPECIALLY the crosswalk only lights seem to be bad about this, and there is often no other indicator that it is about to turn red, unlike with full fledged lights. Just BAM, its red and you have a pedestrian in front of you.
Anyway, don't obey the green man people. You still should check before crossing. You are better off jaywalking carefully than blindly obeying the green man.
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Disillusioned
I think the position of traffic signals in Japan contributes greatly to red light runners. They are positioned in the center of the intersection and if you are behind a truck you cannot see them, thus giving red light runners a legitimate excuse if they were ever stopped by a cop for running a light, not that it is likely to happen. The funniest thing I have seen is cops set up at an intersection and when people get caught running a light the cops pull them over, give them a little lecture and a pack of tissues, a few bows are exchanged and off they drive.
likeitis - The speed limits are fine. They are set so low because most of the roads are narrow and without footpaths. The problem is the attitude of a lot of drivers in Japan. My kid's yochien is on a 4k long side street that connects two major roads. The speed limit 30k because it is a narrow road which leads to an elementary school with a koban out the front. Every morning I see drivers traveling on this road at speeds up to (and beyond) 100k/p/h as they go past the yochien. I have stepped onto the road in front of them to slow them down. I went to the koban to complain about the speeding drivers and asked the knob in a uniform to get out there and do something about it and he just looked at me as if I was insane. Gambling is illegal in Japan until you get on the roads, then you gamble with your life. I felt safer driving around Bali.0
BBLeo
If it took four month to catch the robber how long will take to this 'scumbag?' AICHI should be proud to have name on the Japanese map. Don't tell me that this driver didn't see this poor woman. If he went through red light perhaps he was heading towards a red light building for his satisfaction. Why Japan has so bad drivers? Hope that 'surveillance cameras' were working for quick arrest. It looks that you are not safe to walk on streets in Japan at night. If you take taxi someone could rob you and taxi driver. In my view this driver was drunk or on drugs.
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likeitis
Then you must bicycle everywhere. Nearly every stretch of expressway bears the speed limit of about 50 mph, even on long straightaways. That is insanely slow! Most roads I see have a limit that works out to 25 mph! Americans would go raving bonkers about it. Japanese just ignore it. Totally. Of course.
I am good with THAT. I am talking about MOST roads, not this particular one, obviously. By the way, good on you for making cars slow down on THAT road.
It is A problem, yes. But I don't think its THE problem by a long shot. In fact, I think reasonable limits would make more reasonable drivers.
True. And the quick, but imperfect, fix is longer yellows. Better than nothing.
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