Three-year old boy from Hong Kong killed in Hokkaido, Japan car crash

A three-year-old boy from Hong Kong has been killed in car crash in Hokkaido, according to Japanese media.

He was said to have been in a rental car driven by his father on the way from Sapporo to Asahikawa when the vehicle ran into a lamp-post on a national highway in Iwamizawa at 11.50am on Wednesday, NHK reported.

All four people in the car were injured and taken to hospital, but the boy later died.

The father, in his 30s, sustained an arm fracture, while the mother and the boy’s brother sustained minor injuries.

Local police are investigating.

Hong Kong’s Immigration Department is collecting information on the case.

Several Hong Kong tourists were killed during crashes in driving tours in Hokkaido, one of the most popular travelling spots in the country.

In December 2010, a 51-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl died when their rented vehicle hit head on with a truck on a snow-covered road in a journey from Sapporo to a ski resort at Niseko.

A spokesman from the Hong Kong Immigration Department said it had liaised with the city’s office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and China’s consulate general in Sapporo.

Two immigration officers will go to Hokkaido with the family members on Thursday morning.

(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST)