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US military truck crash kills elderly civilian in Okinawa, Japan
A US military truck collided with a light vehicle in Okinawa, Japan, killing an elderly civilian, local media reports. The driver, allegedly a member of the US Marine Corps, was drunk at the moment of the crash and is being questioned.
On Sunday morning, the driver of a US military truck reportedly violated traffic regulations, running a red light and crashing into a light vehicle at an intersection in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, according to NHK. The Japanese driver, 60, of the civilian truck was taken unconscious to a local hospital, where he died an hour and a half later.
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The man who caused the accident was “apparently a member of the US Marine Corps,” NHK reports, adding that the breath alcohol test of the military truck driver showed the level of alcohol three times above the legal limit.
