Overview
- A car driven by Brighton winger Kaoru Mitoma struck a 48-year-old woman on a bicycle at an intersection in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, when the vehicle was traveling east toward Akabane.
- Police sources told reporters the vehicle appears to have entered the intersection on a red traffic signal while the pedestrian signal in Mitoma's direction had turned green.
- The cyclist suffered a left-hand sprain assessed as a minor injury with an estimated two-week recovery and was taken to hospital for treatment.
- Mitoma is a 29-year-old Brighton player who had been widely known in Japan and was already left off the national World Cup squad this year because of an earlier injury.
- The incident is under active police investigation, no formal charges have been reported, and authorities will determine whether traffic violations or other legal action follow.