The Mainichi Shimbun reports:
FOLLOW-UP:
The Mainichi is now reporting that the guy on the tracks may have committed suicide. I blogged about the Japanese phenomenon of suicide-by-train here.
A Nozomi No. 61 bullet train reportedly hit a man on the tracks at JR Shizuoka Station at about 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.So the people on the train were stuck in place for about two and a half hours. Bullet train? More like bullet time.
The train was not scheduled to stop there and was running at a speed of some 220 kilometers per hour.
The driver of the bullet train noticed the man on the tracks and applied the emergency brakes, but the train hit him, officials said.
The train continued for several kilometers after the driver applied the brakes. Bullet train operations resumed on the line shortly before 11 a.m.
FOLLOW-UP:
The Mainichi is now reporting that the guy on the tracks may have committed suicide. I blogged about the Japanese phenomenon of suicide-by-train here.
But yes, point taken.
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