OSAKA -- Two people were killed early Monday when their car crashed into a parked truck on a municipal highway in Mihara, Osaka Prefecture. A car driven by Satoshi Imura, 19, a college student, burst into flames in the 12:10 a.m. crash, police said. Imura and Yaasuko Moriyama, also 19, a vocational school student who was in the front seat, were killed. A male student, who was in the back seat, escaped to safety, they said. The accident occurred on a two-lane highway with a good visibility. The three people in the car had been high school classmates.
