“I’ll Kill You Right Here”: Woman in Her 20s Seriously Injured in Wrong-Way Crash in Itako, Ibaraki — 38-Year-Old Man Rearrested on Attempted Murder Charges

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A 38-year-old man has been rearrested on suspicion of attempted murder over a wrong-way driving crash that occurred in July in Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture. He allegedly threatened the female victim with a metal bat after the collision, leaving her with serious injuries including fractures. On 5ch, after reports featuring what appears to be dashcam footage, users debated the man’s motive and the state of Japan’s driver’s license system.

1Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:12:15.83ID:ID:T7di+XHu0
A woman in her 20s was seriously injured in a head-on collision with a wrong-way vehicle in Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture, and a 38-year-old man has been rearrested on suspicion of attempted murder. After the crash, the man allegedly threatened the woman with a metal bat, leaving her with serious injuries including fractures. Police are investigating in detail how the man came to be driving the wrong way, how the collision happened, and what his motive was.
◆ Head-on collision with a wrong-way vehicle — but then…
Footage capturing the entirety of the attempted-murder incident involving a woman in her 20s, which occurred in Itako, Ibaraki in July.
5Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:13:48.81ID:8xdyQjNBr
There are way more outlets online now for one-sided opinions to get validated than there used to be, so it just accelerates things even more.
20Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:19:53.45ID:etBCTCbo0
To have someone harbor that much murderous intent toward you… what did this woman even do??
65Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:39:29.46ID:hkBv9xVK0
>>20
Can't you read the source?
They're total strangers.
38Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:28:22.59ID:yvYy6GuW0
Can she actually get any money out of this guy?
43Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:29:28.88ID:Q//9+fPx0
>>38
His parents will probably cough up some money on their own, I'd guess.
64Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:39:20.07ID:R07g1yPS0
Classic ice-age generation, lol (the "employment ice age" cohort that graduated into Japan's brutal job market of the '90s–2000s)
78Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:50:52.67ID:idbuSROy0
>>64
If he's 38, that'd put his job hunting right around the years of the "nightmare" DPJ government, no? (a common conservative-leaning jab at the Democratic Party of Japan's 2009–2012 rule)
77Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:50:14.66ID:9ab4sdtT0
Guy's half insane, honestly.
83Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:51:39.96ID:KICgEweS0
>>77
'Half'? Is it really only half?
91Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:58:49.95ID:z98eb0A4r
Really simply put, I feel like the pattern here is:
– He didn't realize he was the one driving the wrong way
– He figured the other person caused the crash by going the wrong way, so he started acting tough first so he wouldn't be looked down on 🥺
92Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 13:59:43.08ID:nCNl5ocu0
>>91
So from this guy's point of view it's like, 'What the hell, this bitch came at me driving the wrong way! I'll kill her!!'
115Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 14:17:24.23ID:1ahxdT9n0
>>112
If he's 38 he was born in the Showa era. When I think 'yutori generation' (Japan's so-called 'relaxed education' cohort) I picture people born in the Heisei era… though technically the yutori curriculum might've already started by then.
125Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 14:27:32.93ID:z98eb0A4r
>>115
People around 35 now are the last of the yutori generation, so that checks out pretty well, I think.
129Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 14:28:12.10ID:yvYy6GuW0
>>125
I'm turning 40 this year and I'm the first of the yutori generation, so yeah, that lines up.
131Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 14:29:01.80ID:hU//auII0
>>125
So is everyone after the yutori generation safe from being like this?
132Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 14:29:25.16ID:s0qJpYqO0
Feels like this is going to end with her just having to swallow it and move on…
136Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 14:31:22.87ID:y5WIxyYd0
>>132
Wonder how the insurance is going to work out. This is just too awful for her.

*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “38-year-old man says “I’ll kill you right here” and rams his car, driving the wrong way, into a car driven by a woman in her 20s — is this seriously Japan?

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