1 dead, 22 injured after pileup in highway tunnel near Tokyo

A bus driver died and 22 people were taken to hospital after a multiple-vehicle crash in a highway tunnel near Tokyo, police and firefighters said Wednesday.The accident occurred at around 11 p.m. Tuesday after a truck caught fire while traveling on the Bay Shore Route of the Metropolitan Expressway in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.With smoke from the burning truck limiting visibility in the tunnel, over 10 vehicles including a highway bus were involved in the pileup.Yoshinori Nakai, the 50-year-old bus driver, died in the accident, while the driver of the burning truck managed to escape th…READ FULL ARTICLE