Car carrying widow of Japan's slain former PM involving in traffic accident

Akie Abe, the widow of slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was involved in a fender bender on July 25 caused by the police vehicle that was escorting her.

Report informs, citing foreign media, that the car Abe was riding in was rear-ended by a Metropolitan Police Department vehicle at around 8:45 a.m. in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward.

The accident occurred at the Miyakezaka Junction on the Metropolitan Expressway’s Inner Circular Route in the capital’s Nagatacho district.

No one was injured, according to police.