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Two elderly people were killed after the car they were riding in was hit by a train on a crossing in Hiroshima on Saturday morning.
According to police the accident occurred just after 9 a.m. on a crossing on the JR Keibi Line in Asakita Ward. TBS reported that a two-carriage train bound for Miyoshi hit the car, killing the 62-year-old woman driver and and 81-year-old man in the back seat. A 75-year-old woman in the front passenger seat was seriously injured and remains in a coma, police said.
There were no injuries among the train passengers, police said, adding they have not yet determined the cause of the collision.
© Japan Today
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CrazyJoe
This particular railroad crossing is called (Class 4) in Japan. It has neither warning signals nor crossing gates.
FightingViking
@CrazyJoe
In other words : An accident waiting to happen...
Elbuda Mexicano
So sad! Poor old folk! What the hell are they thinking down there in Hiroshima?? FIX that stupid train crossing NOW!!
Louis Tan
Why are the older Japanese killing themselves?
Raymond Chuang
This is a case where because the crossing had no warning signals or crossing gates, the driver should have stopped the car and looked both ways to make sure a train isn't coming down the tracks. And the this part of the JR West Geibi Line isn't exactly a quiet line, either--there are a lot of passenger trains going to Miyoshi through this line from Hiroshima (I believe Miyoshi is a "bedroom community" of Hiroshima of sorts).