An elderly driver and his wife died after their speeding car entered an intersection and hit a vehicle attempting to turn in the city of Fukuoka on Tuesday night, spurring an accident that involved at least four other vehicles, police said.
A total of nine people were taken to hospitals, including Yoshimasa Kojima, 81, of Fukuoka, and his wife, Setsuko, 76, both of whom later died.
Seven others, including one pedestrian, sustained injuries that were not life threatening in the accident, in which two of the cars involved careened onto a sidewalk, authorities said.