At around 7:40 a.m. on the 6th, a multi-vehicle accident occurred on the northbound lane of the Ban-etsu Expressway in Takatama, Atami-cho, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, when a microbus collided with a guardrail. According to the prefectural police highway patrol, 21 people, including students from Hokushin High School in Niigata City, were on board the bus for a club activity trip.