Girl dies as car driven by 13-yr-old crashes in western Japan

A car carrying five 13-year-old students crashed in the western Japan city of Okayama on Sunday morning, leaving one of them, a girl, dead and the other four seriously injured, police said.The police are investigating who was behind the wheel when the car carrying the junior high school second-graders hit a pole on the median strip of a four-lane road around 4:55 a.m. An empty can of "chuhai" low-alcohol beverage was found in the backseat of the car.People must be 18 years old or older to drive a car in Japan.The girl who died was identified as Koharu Abe. She was thrown out of the vehicle …READ FULL ARTICLE