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Motorists nab cash spilled by armored truck, causing crashes in New Jersey
An armored truck spilled cash Thursday on a New Jersey highway, leading to two crashes as drivers "went a little bit crazy" to grab the swirling money. The frenzy happened during morning rush hour in East Rutherford, near MetLife Stadium, where the New York Giants ...
Five U.S. Marines missing in aircraft collision off Kochi Prefecture declared dead
Search operations, which included vessels from the Self-Defense Forces, had been underway since a KC-130 tanker plane collided with an F/A-18 fighter jet during training Thursday.
A 16-year-old Japanese high school student on a school trip to Australia has drowned while snorkeling, the Japanese consular office in Cairns said Saturday. The second-year student at Hokuetsu High School in Niigata Prefecture was pulled unconscious from the water on Wednesday when he was ...
U.S. Marines ID pilot who died in tanker-fighter crash off Kochi; five still missing
Jahmar Resilard of Miramar, Florida, was an F/A-18 pilot with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 based in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, when his plane went down off Kochi Prefecture.
Two rescued, five missing after 'mishap' involving U.S. Marine tanker and fighter jet off Kochi
Tokyo said the crash had occurred around 100 km off Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture.
Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday launched a sensor-based device that is designed to prevent crashes caused by the misapplication of pedals in older types of its Prius and Aqua series of vehicles that do not have an automatic braking system. Confusing the brake pedal with ...
As heater-related deaths top 100 over five years, officials urge caution when using appliances
The nationwide death toll from fires and carbon monoxide poisoning caused by heating appliances over five years through March 2018 has hit 107, a survey by an independent administrative agency has found. The number of heater-related accidents over the same period also totaled 1,064, according ...
Lion Air crash sheds light on the dark side of cockpit automation
Focus As Boeing Co. was developing its latest version of the 737 airliner, it discovered the design was slightly more prone to loss of control. So the company added a computer-driven safety feature — one that is now a focus of the investigation into a ...
The rate of rental car accidents involving foreign drivers in Osaka Prefecture is four times higher than those involving Japanese drivers, according to recent data released by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. A study of foreign drivers conducted by the ministry's Kinki bureau between ...
Pilots struggled to control Lion Air plane that crashed in Indonesia
Black box data show Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control of a Boeing jet as its automatic safety system repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down, according to a draft of a preliminary report by Indonesian authorities investigating last month's deadly crash. The investigators are ...
An explosion and fire near a chemical factory left at least 22 people dead and 22 others injured on Wednesday in a northern China region that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics, authorities said. The incident near Hebei Shenghua Chemical Co. in Zhangjiakou, a city ...
A car rammed into a group of children crossing a street in front of an elementary school in northeast China on Thursday, killing five children and injuring 19 others, state media said. Police took the driver into custody and are investigating the cause of the ...
