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Japan: Dashcam Captures Truck Crash on Expressway, Cargo Flies into Opposite Lane

Just after 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23, a medium-sized cargo truck collided with the central divider on the Tohoku Expressway in Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, causing the gas cylinders it was carrying to fall and involved three vehicles traveling in the opposite lane. A dashcam in one of the vehicles on the opposite lane captured the accident, showing the truck kicking up a cloud of dust and its cargo flying across to the other side.

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31 injured in bus-truck collision

SHIROISHI, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 2, 2012, shows a bus whose front is wrecked after a collision with a truck, in Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture. Thirty-one people were injured after the overnight bus, heading for Sendai from the Tokyo Disney Resort theme park, hit the truck from behind at around 4:10 a.m. the same day on the Tohoku Expressway, local police said.

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Bon holiday exodus for hometowns, resorts peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Lanes outbound from Tokyo on the Tohoku Expressway near an interchange in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture are jammed as Japanese head for their hometowns Aug. 13, when the annual exodus from urban centers peaked amid the Bon summer holidays.

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2 killed, drums scattered in traffic accident

SAITAMA, Japan - Two truck drivers were killed and about 50 drums of alkyl benzene used for detergent were scattered across the road when their trucks collided on the Tohoku expressway in Hasuda, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 24.

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Workers clean up explosives spilled in road accident

YAITA, Japan - Workers collect about 1.5 tons of explosives on the Tohoku Expressway in Yaita, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 25, which were scattered after two trucks collided. One of the vehicles slammed into the back of the truck carrying the explosives.

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13 hurt in 23-vehicle pileup on snowy Fukushima highway

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Trucks and cars lie on snow-covered lanes Jan. 5 after a pileup involving 23 vehicles on the Tohoku Expressway in Koriyama, northeastern Japan, in which 13 persons were injured.

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25 injured in 45-vehicle pileup

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a 45-vehicle pileup on a snow-covered section of the Tohoku Expressway in northeastern Japan on Dec. 12, in which at least 25 people were injured. The pileup in Sambongi, 320 kilometers north of Tokyo, started when a truck skidded in the snow.

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4 killed after magnitude-7.4 quake strikes NE Japan

STORY: 4 killed after magnitude-7.4 quake strikes NE Japan DATELINE: March 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:41 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent "Four people were killed and 97 others injured after a 6.1-magnitude and a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan late Wednesday night. Strong shaking was felt in the country's northeastern and eastern areas, especially in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. Part of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train service was suspended (Thursday morning) after the earthquake derailed a bullet train. East Nippon Expressway Company temporarily closed several sections of expressways." Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tokyo. (XHTV)

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Powerful quake rocks northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a cracked part of the Tohoku Expressway in Shiroishi in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 17, 2022, after a powerful earthquake struck the region shortly before midnight.

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Powerful quake rocks northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a cracked part of the Tohoku Expressway in Shiroishi in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 17, 2022, after a powerful earthquake struck the region shortly before midnight.

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2 killed, drums scattered in traffic accident

SAITAMA, Japan - Two truck drivers were killed and about 50 drums of alkyl benzene used for detergent were scattered across the road when their trucks collided on the Tohoku expressway in Hasuda, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 24.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

OSAKI, Japan : Movie taken Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and many vehicles stranded.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and many vehicles stranded.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and many vehicles stranded.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and many vehicles stranded.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2021, shows vehicles stranded on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after a multiple-vehicle collision occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2021, shows the site of a multiple-vehicle collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The accident occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2021, shows vehicles stranded on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after a multiple-vehicle collision occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Vehicles are seen stranded on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2021, after a multiple-vehicle collision occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Multiple-vehicle collision on snow-blanketed expressway in northeastern Japan

Vehicles are seen stranded on the Tohoku Expressway in Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2021, after a multiple-vehicle collision occurred due to heavy snowfall that blanketed the region, leaving one person dead and 10 others hospitalized.

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Bon holiday exodus for hometowns, resorts peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Lanes outbound from Tokyo on the Tohoku Expressway near an interchange in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture are jammed as Japanese head for their hometowns Aug. 13, when the annual exodus from urban centers peaked amid the Bon summer holidays. (Kyodo)

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Workers clean up explosives spilled in road accident

YAITA, Japan - Workers collect about 1.5 tons of explosives on the Tohoku Expressway in Yaita, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 25, which were scattered after two trucks collided. One of the vehicles slammed into the back of the truck carrying the explosives.

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13 hurt in 23-vehicle pileup on snowy Fukushima highway

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Trucks and cars lie on snow-covered lanes Jan. 5 after a pileup involving 23 vehicles on the Tohoku Expressway in Koriyama, northeastern Japan, in which 13 persons were injured.

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25 injured in 45-vehicle pileup

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a 45-vehicle pileup on a snow-covered section of the Tohoku Expressway in northeastern Japan on Dec. 12, in which at least 25 people were injured. The pileup in Sambongi, 320 kilometers north of Tokyo, started when a truck skidded in the snow.

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4 injured in pileup on Tohoku expressway

MORIOKA, Japan - Four men were injured, one seriously, Dec. 12 in a pileup involving about 30 vehicles on the Tohoku expressway in Iwate Prefecture, police say. A large truck collided into an express highway bus bound for Sendai from Odate, Akita Prefecture, at around 8:50 a.m. in the town of Ashiro, and other vehicles, including trailers and passenger cars, became involved in a chain collision, the police said. The photo was supplied by the Iwate Nippo newspaper.