Update | Help for family after Hong Kong boy, 3, dies in holiday crash
Immigration officers fly to Japan with relatives of accident victims as Hokkaido authorities probe just how car slammed into lamp post on highway
Hong Kong immigration officers flew to Japan Thursday to assist a grieving family after a three-year-old boy was killed in a car crash.
The parents and the two-year-old brother of the victim, who died in the crash on Wednesday, were taken to hospital in Sapporo for treatment.
A spokesman for China’s consulate general in Sapporo said the three suffered “minor injuries”.
It is understood the couple in their 30s suffered fractures and their two-year-old son slight injuries to a shoulder.
“Their conditions are not life threatening and they are all in a conscious state,” a source said.
The fatal crash happened shortly before midday while the family was holidaying on the northern island of Hokkaido.