Big in the news this morning was an investigative report following the death of a tourism bus driver that happened on Friday. According to the reports, one of the truck’s 12 wheels came off, jumped a center divider of the expressway and smashed through the window shield into the driver’s seat, killing the driver on impact.
Apparently, the driver of the truck didn't get his regular 1-year point inspection of the truck and failed to realize the significance of the odd noise coming from the back of the truck. By the time he looked up in the rear view mirror to see the tire go flying off, it was too late.
What struck me interesting was that on the program they had the actual wheel sitting there in the open for people to see. I can't think of a news program in the US that would show this. Also interesting was they were talking at length as to how to prevent this - another thing we would rarely see on the news back home.
Hit the jump for the more (Japan News)
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