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The story
On October 25, 2026, a passenger car flipped over on the outbound lane of the Chuo Expressway in Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture. Eight people on board were taken to hospital by ambulance. The driver, 28-year-old company employee Koki Nishio of Ena City, was unharmed, but his wife, 27-year-old Reona Nishio, who was seated in the third row, died after her neck was severely compressed. The remaining seven passengers, including children, were not in life-threatening condition. On the 5ch thread, discussion centered on speculation about the car model and the cause of the rollover, confusion over who had actually been driving, and back-and-forth over how to read the victim’s unusual name.
Car flips on Chuo Expressway: 8 taken to hospital, including children; woman in her 20s dies
Oct 25 (Sun), 16:32 JST
Chukyo TV News
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Guess he'll get hit with a separate charge for overcapacity on top of everything.
Isn't it a Granace or a full-size Hiace?
Doesn't the Voxy come in an 8-seater?
There's definitely an 8-seat Voxy.
https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1330043
(Includes a photo of the car)
> died after her neck was severely compressed
Makes you wonder if the seatbelt caught her around the neck.
You can die from just that? Didn't it have side airbags?
He's still alive?
With kanji like that, there's a decent chance she was born into a pretty upper-class family.
You don't know Reona Hirota?
In 10 or 20 years, play Miyuki Nakajima's 'Jidai' ('The Times') and lose yourself in the memories.
Only the driver died?
Was the mother driving?
But the driver's side looks intact…
The seatbelt runs from the right shoulder to the left hip —
so did she just slip right out of it?
Wait, isn't the driver a different person? I thought the woman who died was sitting in the third row.
What are you talking about? The woman who died was in the third-row back seat.
It's not 'Konegi' ['little green onion' — a joking misreading], right?
Ren, On, Nagi —
take the first sound of each and you get 'Re-o-na.'
They're pronouncing it 'Reona.'
Source: Chunichi Shimbun Web
Oh, it fell onto the driver's side — and people can still die even from that.
Going by the tire size it looks like a higher trim, but isn't the capacity 7? Is the 'three kids count as two adults' rule still a thing?
Nishio Koneko ['kitten']?
西尾恋音 = Nishio Reo, 凪 = Nagi
> 恋音凪 Nishio (27), of Ena City, who was in the third-row back seat, died, and 3 men and women in their 20s plus 4 boys and girls aged 3 to 6 are believed to have suffered minor injuries.
But how do you actually read 恋音凪?
Isn't it 'Reona'?!
Probably 'Reona,' dunno though lol
Isn't the name given in the article that has the video? It's read aloud there, so go check that one.
No way you read that as 'Reona.'
So the husband was driving and the wife died… (´･ω･`)
Wasn't there a commercial jingle that went 'Reona〜〜ah〜'?
So I guess the seatbelt wrapped around her neck and she suffocated. A tragic accident. Though — there are cars that seat 8 people? (laughs)
It's an 8-seat minivan with a 2-3-3 seating layout.
Yeah, minivans can seat that many.
So was that 'shachihoko' [the nose-down, tail-up pose, named after the mythical dolphin-fish roof ornament] crash the other day easier to pull off?!
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The article does not specify official details about the cause of the accident or the car model, and within the thread itself, confusion over who was driving and who died persisted early on, before the picture — “the husband who was driving was unharmed, while the wife in the third row died” — was settled partway through. In rollover accidents, vehicles without side/rollover curtain airbags may not get adequate protection from regular airbags alone, and even when properly secured by a seatbelt, strong pressure can be placed on the neck, in some cases leading to death — a pattern that is already documented. There was also surprise at the idea of “a car that seats 8 people,” but for minivans with a 2-3-3 seating layout, such as the Voxy or Alphard, an 8-person capacity is not unusual and does not amount to exceeding the legal limit. The confusion over how to read the victim’s name, “恋音凪 (Reona),” likewise stems from the fact that this kind of unconventional kanji-based naming (ateji) hasn’t become familiar to most readers.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “yŠò•Œz’†‰›”¹’Å2’Æ’°8l’ªæ’éŽÔ’ª’¡”]@Žq’ç’àŠÜ’Þ8l”À’—@20’ã’Ì•êe’ªŽ€–S [Ž®’š].”
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