関越バス事故から１０年　遺族「終わったわけではない」―群馬

　群馬県藤岡市の関越自動車道で２０１２年、乗客７人が死亡、３８人が重軽傷を負った高速ツアーバス事故から２９日で１０年となった。発生時刻の午前４時４０分には犠牲者の遺族や友人ら約３０人が事故現場を訪れ、近くに設置された祭壇に手を合わせた。
　事故で母親の郁子さん＝当時（４９）＝を亡くし、自身も重傷を負った林彩乃さん（３３）＝富山県高岡市＝は「あっという間でもあったし、まだそれしかたっていないのかという気持ちもある」と振り返る。１０年たった今も母への思いは募るばかりで、「（事故は）終わったわけではない。節目という言葉では片付けられない」と語った。
　山瀬俊貴さん（２９）＝前橋市＝は、事故で母の直美さん＝当時（４４）＝を失ったことをきっかけに、群馬県警の警察官となった。１０年の間に、自らも父親となった。「家族を大事にしたい」と決意を新たにし、亡き母にはこの日、「天国から守ってほしい」と改めて伝えたという。（2022/04/29-10:58）

About 30 people, including family members and friends of the victims of a fatal bus crash in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, visited the accident site and offered prayers on Friday, exactly 10 years after the tragedy.
   "Ten years passed by like a flash," said Ayano Hayashi, 33, who lost her mother in the accident and got injured seriously herself. The resident of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, said that her love for her mother, then 49, only increases, adding, "The accident is not yet over for me."
   Toshiki Yamase, a 29-year-old resident of Maebashi, Gunma, became a police officer after the accident, driven by his experience of losing his mother, then 44, in the crash. Yamase, now raising a child, said he wants his mother to watch over how he is doing as a father from heaven.
   Some of the visitors to the accident site voiced condolences for the victims of Saturday's accident involving a sightseeing tour boat, which went missing off Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, with 26 people onboard, saying what happened was heartbreaking and relates to their experiences.
   On April 29, 2012, the tour bus heading for Tokyo Disney Resort in the city of Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, from the city of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, crashed into a roadside sound insulation wall on the Kanetsu Expressway in Fujioka, leaving seven passengers dead and 38 other people injured.