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Two 18-year-old youths were killed and three other youths, aged 17 and 18, injured after the car they were riding in left the road and slammed into an apartment building in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, on Saturday.
According to police, the accident occurred at around 1 a.m. Saturday. Fuji TV reported that the car, which was apparently speeding, went onto the curb and then hit the side of a two-story apartment. Nobody in the apartment was injured, police said, adding the residents were on the 2nd floor at the time of the accident
One resident was quoted by media as saying the impact sounded like an earthquake had struck the building.
Policed said the driver and the passenger in the front seat, both 18, were killed. The three youths in the back seat, one aged 17 and the other two aged 18, were taken to hospital. The 17-year-old is in a coma while the other two sustained light injuries, police said.
© Japan Today
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TheGodfather
They must have been going some speed...
sensei258
Speeding at 1 am on Saturday. I'd be checking the blood alcohol level of the driver, even though he died.
Alistair Carnell
Joy riding morons.
Jonathan Prin
No indication of seatbelts = facultative information? Same for alcohol ? Speeding only reason ? 100% doubtful.
18 year old, right to die but not to vote LOL ! RIP
Conspiracy Theories
What?! Who was on the second floor?
nath
Even when two cars "bump" into each other it makes a lot of noise. Now imagine a car smashing into an apartment building at that high speed at that hour when everyone is sleeping and everything is quiet. Must have thrown a lot of people out of bed. Wow! Lives lost big time here. Just before New Years too. Terrible way to end the year.