82-year-old woman dies after being hit by bus in Yokohama
YOKOHAMA —
An 82 year-old woman died after being hit by a bus while crossing the street in Yokohama’s Nishi Ward on Tuesday. Police said the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. A Sotetsu bus heading from Yokohama Station to Sakuragi-cho Station struck Yoshiko Inokuchi while she was crossing the road.
Inokuchi was rushed to hospital with severe head injuries but was pronounced dead shortly afterward. There were two passengers on the bus at the time, neither of whom were injured. The 63-year-old bus driver told authorities, “I didn’t notice her until I actually hit her.”
Inokuchi was struck on a four-lane road in an area with no crosswalk.
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Yelnats
Suspended sentence.
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smithinjapan
Sounds like 100% the old lady's fault, though in Japan of course they never lay 100% of the blame at any one person's feet in car accidents. Anyway, the key word in this sentence is the 'no' before crosswalk, as in the lady was crossing the street illegally, and was probably hunched over and quite slow at it. I feel sorry for the old woman, but I see people standing or walking in the streets all the time, not to mention the double-parking (for which you often have to walk AROUND the cars and into the streets to get around) and bicycles on the wrong side of the road, etc.
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IvanCoughalot
So she shouldn't have been on the road. Her fault. Oh but she's (or rather, was) 82, and therefore wise, so it's somebody else's fault.
How these old bags reach this advanced age without learning how to cross the road beats me. Or maybe she used to do it right, but ripped up the rule book once she became venerable and expected everyone to defer.
Stupid waste, and the poor old driver's going to be struggling from now on.
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likeitis
A FOUR LANE road and she is crossing with no crosswalk? I have to wonder how many lanes she crossed before getting nailed. The sympathy for the driver starts high enough, but increases with each lane she crossed, because it only gets more and more difficult to notice a pedestrian that simply should not be there.
People fly down four lane roads. I can't blame them. To cross without a crosswalk PLUS without being absolutely sure you can make it to the other side would be positively Darwinian if not for the fact she was post-menopausal.
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elbudamexicano
Most of you gaijins here never drive in Japan, I do drive (while being gaijin) and it is scary! THere are too many old folks, crossing very wide streets in the craziest of places, because they cant be bothered to go to the correct place and press a button that is 100 meters away, then you have this poor old, maybe senile 82 year old woman being mowed down by the bus in Yokohama, no surprise. RIP old woman!
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bdiego
It's an accident, that's all. Don't jaywalk and look both ways. Drive carefully even if you have the right of way. If this doesn't prevent an accident, that's life.
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bcbrownboy
"that's life" ??? not in this case.
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ebisen
Mexicano - I also drive myself, and agree - it's scary - people literally jump in front of cars out of nowhere...
I always use my horn on them.
They always walk away like little children scolded by their mothers for being bad - not even apologizing - this means they know they were doing something bad and still doing it... If I hit one of them with my almost 2 ton car, even at 35 km/h they have little chance of survival...
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elbudamexicano
Thanks Ebisen, it is very, very scary driving here, not just with old folks crossing big streets in the dark and out of no where, but how about all these kids listening to their ipods and checking their emails while riding their bicycles in and out of traffic?? THis 82 year, may she rest in peace, but these younger kids, dont think they will make it too far with their bad habits.
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