Tokyo, Jan. 23 -- 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 r...