Around 5:15 AM on the 14th, at a prefectural road intersection in Kiyokawa Village, Miyagase, a passenger car driven by a 33-year-old male company employee from Narita City, Chiba Prefecture collided with a cushion drum. The man was confirmed dead at the hospital where he was transported.
According to the Atsugi Police Station, the scene was a T-junction at the base of the “Miyagase Yamabiko Bridge.” It appears that the car, proceeding straight from the bridge, collided almost head-on with cushion drums placed along the side of the road directly ahead.
Fatal single-vehicle accidents have occurred repeatedly at this T-junction, with another male passenger car driver having died there in May of this year.
Miyagase Yamabiko Bridge
The Miyagase Yamabiko Bridge is a modern suspension bridge completed in 2005, spanning the Nakatsu River and the Miyagase Dam lake in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was constructed to provide a scenic crossing for pedestrians and cyclists, offering panoramic views of the surrounding Tanzawa Mountains and the man-made lake created by the dam.
