Train accident
April 25, 2005
There was a pretty bad train accident this morning in Amagasaki, Hyogo prefecture, not too far away from Osaka. As of right now, there are 49 deaths, 350+ injured, and 10 still stuck in carriages. Apparently the express train ran a curve too quickly, derailed, and slammed into an apartment building.
Mainichi News has a clip and a pretty scary picture. Note one of the trains wrapped like paper around the apartment. On tv right now, the apartment building looks intact except for some balconies which look pretty damaged.
No word as to the exact cause of the accident.
Anyway, just in case the non-Japan people who might hear about this accident in “Osaka”, I’m OK. I was nowhere near the accident this morning.
April 26th, 2005 at 01:37
Holy crap, you’re right it’s wrapped like paper around that building. So supposedly it was going too fast because the driver was running a bit late off schedule? That’s a terrible mistake…
Another question… is the “Self Defence Force” the Japanese version of a military?
April 26th, 2005 at 17:14
Yeah the SDF is the Japanese military. It’s not called the army because under the Japanese constitution, they’re not allowed an army. It’s a matter of semantics.
73 people dead now.