corrected<\/a>.<\/p>\nAn airman stationed at Kadena Air Base has died from a brain injury suffered in a motorcycle crash two weeks ago on Okinawa, the Air Force and local police said.<\/p>\n
The airman, 33, was pronounced dead at 8:34 p.m. Thursday at Urasoe General Hospital, according to an 18th Wing news release issued Friday. His name is being withheld until 24 hours after notification of next of kin.
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He died of a brain hemorrhage he sustained after his motorcycle collided with a compact car at an intersection in the Isa area of Ginowan city on Oct. 17, an Okinawa Prefectural Police spokesman said by phone Friday.
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The airman had been traveling south from Kadena town toward Naha city on Route 58 when he collided with a vehicle turning right from the opposite lane, a Ginowan city police spokesman said Oct. 20. Both drivers were taken to a central Okinawa hospital.<\/p>\n
The airman was unconscious as of Oct. 20, police said.<\/p>\n
The Japanese man driving the car was released from the hospital after a medical examination, according to the 18th Wing. He is 26 years old, according to police.
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Some Japanese government officials speak to the press only on condition of anonymity.
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The incident remains under investigation, said the wing, which acknowledged but did not answer phone and email questions Friday.
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The intersection where the crash occurred is the second most dangerous on Okinawa, according to a traffic safety white paper issued in June by the prefectural police, which recorded six accidents there in 2024.
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Stars and Stripes reporters Hana Kusumoto and Keishi Koja contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
Correction<\/p>\n
Due to a translation error, a previous version of this story stated the airman was in a coma following the accident. He was unconscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The intersection of Route 58 and Prefectural Route 81 is the second most dangerous on Okinawa, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2960,490,2957,8,491,2959,162,2958],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-okinawa","tag-accident","tag-air-force","tag-airman-dies","tag-japan","tag-kadena","tag-motorcycle-collision","tag-okinawa","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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