Two men die after police car chase in Shizuoka
SHIZUOKA —
Two men died in hospital after a car chase by police Monday morning in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture.
According to police, at around 2:15 a.m., police said they were notified that four young men were fighting in the parking lot of a restaurant. According to witnesses, two men damaged a car belonging to the other two and then drove off in their car as police arrived.
Police gave chase, pursuing the men for approximately one kilometer before it crashed into a parking lot, leaving the two men unconscious. The two men, identified as Tsukasa Otani, 26, and Mitsuaki Ueda, 23, were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead shortly after.
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RobertCB
I thought that the police weren't allowed to give chase for this exact reason.
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kittyjump
Was that necessary?
(Robert-- I think there are rules like that in US and others but not here)
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Badge213
In the US it depends on the agency.
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ratpack
they simply should have stopped.....the 2 getting chased that is NOT the police. The fact they decided to hightail it and try to outrun the police was their choice. We could be reading an even more tragic story about how the car ploughed into a family van killing the family as well...but luckily we aren't.
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my2sense
These bums crawl/race the streets late at night in every Japanese city. Osaka is probably the worst with the bosozuku running around. Typical... either two dudes and two dudes did the macho man thing, usually over skank and at your dump izakaya or the four were drinking together. I have no sympathy for this breed in Japan as with the Yaks. Live hard you die hard.
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Tahoochi
RobertCB: My thoughts exactly too. I wonder if rules have changed. And as ratpack mentions, the bigger reason J-cops supposedly don't do car chases is the endangerment of innocent by-standers.
kittyjump:
Are you kidding me? You obviously haven't seen all those reality shows in the US that air non-stop police car chases. I also remember staying in LA years ago and seeing on the TV "Breaking News!! Car chase on the xxxx freeway!" practically every day I was there.
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Tahoochi
my2sense: Where does it say that bosozoku were involved?
Fighting in the parking lot of a restaurant at 2:15AM? They could have been drunks. You don't have to be bosozoku to be a little "rough around the edges". Just saying.
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my2sense
I know that mate... I meant for late night gang banging in Osaka- they lead the pack car racing too after midnight. There is only so much point you can make writing a comment on the Internet and be misunderstood.
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my2sense
yes... I do realize its Shizuoka too....
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presto345
That was a short chase with a quick tragic ending.
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ebisen
And here we have our last two Darwing Award Winners... these chimpira had their last night out yesterday.It is rare that the crooks do not simply outrun the police in Japan though...
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smithinjapan
I thought it was a bit odd, but then I also know that paramedics are not really paramedics here and are qualified to do little else but drive the ambulance and/or secure the patient in the back. I don't believe they are allowed to officially call deaths except in extreme cases, and have to haul them to the ambulance where a certified doctor does so. That is possible in this case. You very often hear 'pronounced dead at hospital'.
Anyway, it's a shame what happened, and I wish the two guys hadn't tried to outrun the cops.
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