A truck drove into a crowd of pedestrians in Tokyo, causing the death of an 80-year-old man and injuring another ten people, one of whom seriously.

On Monday, in Tokyo, a serious accident occurred when a stolen car drove into a crowd of pedestrians, resulting in the death of an 80-year-old man and injuring ten other people, one of whom is in a coma. The incident took place in the Adachi district, and the driver, who tried to flee on foot after the accident, was caught by the police. Authorities are investigating the case as related to the car theft. Witnesses described the scene as alarming, mentioning that one person was thrown into the air by the impact. This incident comes after another similar accident in 2019, when a vehicle injured nine people in a pedestrian area, caused by a young man who deliberately accelerated.