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Chuo Expressway
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Two separate rollover accidents are drawing attention in Japan. On the Chuo Expressway's downbound lanes between Ena and Mizunami interchanges in Gifu Prefecture, a passenger car overturned, leaving eight people hospitalised, one of them in critical condition, and forcing the road to close. Separately, a light car driven by an 18-year-old man overturned on a hairpin curve on the Kinka-san Driveway, leaving two high school students aboard dead or injured.
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Multiple transport disruptions are being reported across Japan. A fatal-accident-related closure has shut the Shin-Tomei Expressway between Fujieda Okabe and Shimada Kanaya interchanges, the Tokaido Line suspended service between Kikugawa and Hamamatsu stations after a person was struck at Kakegawa station, the Kan-Etsu Expressway saw a temporary closure between Muikamachi and Uonuma, and night closures are planned on the Chuo Expressway's Bando to Shimosa section through December.
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A car carrying two families overturned on the Chuo Expressway in Japan. Eight people, including children, were taken to hospital, and a woman in her twenties died. The vehicle was reported to be carrying members of two families when the rollover occurred, and authorities are investigating the circumstances of the crash.
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The Chuo Expressway in Japan has been closed, with sections shut to all traffic. Drivers are being advised to use alternative routes as the closure disrupts travel on one of the country's main arterial roads connecting Tokyo with central Japan. No details were given on when the road is expected to reopen.