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Jun 28, 10:44 AM (ET)
TOKYO (Reuters) - A young mother found at the scene of a car crash near Tokyo in which her husband and infant son were killed had already been dead for at least a day before the accident happened, police were quoted as saying Sunday.
The bizarre discovery was made after emergency crews who rushed to the scene found the body of Rie Ishikawa, 28, already in a state of rigor mortis, Kyodo news agency reported.
The family car crashed early Sunday on a highway in Sawara, Chiba Prefecture.
Ishikawa's husband, Masayuki, 32, survived the initial crash after the car hit a concrete wall then rebounded and hit the lane divider in the center of the highway, Kyodo said.
But the impact threw the couple's three-year-old son Masamune out of the car from the front passenger seat.
When the father got out of the car to find him, both he and the child were struck by oncoming vehicles and killed, police were quoted as saying.
The woman, who was in the back seat of the car, was believed to have died one or two days before the accident, police were quoted as saying. There was no immediate explanation of how she died.
TOKYO (Reuters) - A young mother found at the scene of a car crash near Tokyo in which her husband and infant son were killed had already been dead for at least a day before the accident happened, police were quoted as saying Sunday.
The bizarre discovery was made after emergency crews who rushed to the scene found the body of Rie Ishikawa, 28, already in a state of rigor mortis, Kyodo news agency reported.
The family car crashed early Sunday on a highway in Sawara, Chiba Prefecture.
Ishikawa's husband, Masayuki, 32, survived the initial crash after the car hit a concrete wall then rebounded and hit the lane divider in the center of the highway, Kyodo said.
But the impact threw the couple's three-year-old son Masamune out of the car from the front passenger seat.
When the father got out of the car to find him, both he and the child were struck by oncoming vehicles and killed, police were quoted as saying.
The woman, who was in the back seat of the car, was believed to have died one or two days before the accident, police were quoted as saying. There was no immediate explanation of how she died.
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