Student Caught In Traffic Rushed to Exam

Backpage Article Display: "Tokyo - A Japanese student caught up in a traffic accident that could have made him miss the biggest exam of his life arrived Tuesday at the test centre sirens wailing after police ruled his case an emergency.

The 18-year-old student was heading to a university entrance exam in the western city of Hiroshima when his bus hit a trailer-truck ahead of it, slightly injuring four of the 31 bus passengers, police said.

Japanese society values education as a passport to success and wealth. Studying for college entrance exams is taken so seriously that failure sometimes leads to suicide."