TOKYO, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A man died and eight others were injured after a Japanese government car apparently caused a multivehicle accident in central Tokyo, local media reported on Friday.
According to footage from dashcams in the vicinity, an official car of the Cabinet Office, which was being driven by a 69-year-old contracted worker, is believed to have ignored a red traffic light and entered an intersection in Tokyo's busy Akasaka district at around 6:35 p.m. local time on Thursday, Kyodo News reported.
The victim, 32-year-old company employee Noboru Akashi, was a passenger inside a taxi when it was hit by another vehicle that had collided with the government car, the report said.
Eight men and women in their 20s to 60s suffered injuries ranging from serious to minor in the accident involving six vehicles, including a garbage truck, it added.
Police are investigating the accident as a possible case of dangerous driving resulting in death and injury. ■