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Elderly Pedestrian Seriously Injured After Collision With Runner During Marathon

At around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 22 during the Sapporo Toyohiragawa Trial Marathon on a cycling course in Sapporo's Minami Ward, 32-year-old amateur runner Saeki Makino, 32, of Warabi, Saitama collided with a pedestrian, local resident Toshiko Ishiyama, 82, who was walking on the course. Ishiyama was knocked down, sustaining serious injuries including a broken left wrist.

With an absence of course markings leaving the course freely open for pedestrians to enter it, Minami Ward police are examinig the organizers' operations. According to the police, Makino claimed that at the time of the accident there were other runners around him, saying, "She was right in front of me before I noticed her and I couldn't avoid the collision."

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Makino photo © 2013 Dr. Helmut Winter, all rights reserved

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