List of Suzuka Circuit fatalities
List of fatal accidents involving competitors

List of Suzuka Circuit fatalities

Section Title: List of fatal accidents involving competitors
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Driver	Date	Vehicle	Entrant	Section	Type	Event

Japan Masao Asano	May 4, 1963	Austin-Healey 3000	130R	Car	Japanese Grand Prix

As Asano approached 130R, he crashed into the guardrail, throwing him clear of the car suffering a severe head injury. Asano died in hospital three months later.

Japan Tojiro Ukiya	August 20, 1965	Dome Karasu	130R	Car	Testing

While avoiding two spectators who were walking on the course, Ukiya swerved but crashed into a lamppost. He was thrown off his car, suffering head injury and fracturing both legs and died in hospital 21 days later.

Japan Takeshi Mitsuno	October 10, 1965	Car	Suzuka KSCC race meeting

Japan Takashi Matsunaga	August 10, 1969	Honda R1300	Honda	Spoon Curve	Car	Suzuka 12 Hours race

As Matsunaga was about to stop to refuel, he crashed into a guardrail, causing the car to explode into a fireball.

Japan Kiyoshi Akiyama	August 23, 1970	Honda S800	Spoon Curve	Car	Suzuka 12 Hours race

Akiyama's Honda S800 struck Hiromi Nishino's Isuzu Bellett at Spoon corner, causing the two cars to explode into a fireball, burning 150 liters of gasoline.

Japan Satoru Takashima	August 8, 1970	Degner	Motorcycle	Suzuka 10 Hours Production

During a Saturday qualifying session, 20-year-old newcomer, Takashima went straight at the Degner bend and flew over the guardrails, sustaining severe head and chest injuries.

Japan Minoru Kawai	August 26, 1970	Toyota 7	Toyota	Degner	Car	Testing

Kawai lost control of the Toyota 7 at the Degner bend at about 200 km/h, being thrown out of the car.

Japan Senkichi Omura	April 7, 1974	Brabham BT21	Spoon	Car	F2000 private test

Omura crashed into a guardrail, killing him instantly with a broken neck.

Japan Masazi Iso	6 March 1982	1st Curve	Car	All-Japan Formula Three Championship practice

Iso's car spun on the 1st Curve and stopped on the grass. While he was walking away, he was struck by another car, killing him instantly.

Japan Kengo Kiyama	10 June 1983	Spoon	Motorcycle	200 km of Suzuka qualifying

While approaching the Spoon curve, Kiyama crashed, killing him instantly.

Japan Kunio Katsumata	30 July 1983	Motorcycle	Suzuka 8 Hours qualifying

Japan Hitoshi Ogawa	May 24, 1992	Lola T92/50 - Mugen Honda	First Corner	Car	Japanese Formula 3000 race

Ogawa attempted to overtake Andrew Gilbert-Scott's car on the main straight but Gilbert-Scott held his position. As Ogawa moved to the side of Gilbert-Scott's car he hit the rear-left wheel of the British driver's car, the front wheel of Ogawa's car climbed over the aforementioned wheel and became lodged in front of it.

United States Elmo Langley	November 21, 1996	Chevrolet Corvette	Safety Car	S-Curve	Car	NASCAR Thunder 100

NASCAR official and safety car driver Langley suffered a heart attack during safety car runs for the NASCAR exhibition race and stopped in the S-Curve.

Japan Naoto Ogura	March 7, 2000	Suzuki Hayabusa	Yoshimura	200R	Motorcycle	Testing

Ogura crashed into a barrier on the outside of 200R, he was taken to hospital where he later died from his injuries.

Japan Mamoru Yamakawa	July 30, 2000	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-9R	Challenge of Yamakawa	130R	Motorcycle	Suzuka 8 Hours race

Yamakawa lost control of his Kawasaki after failing to negotiate 130R and crashed into the cushioned barriers. He was dead on arrival, caused by severe hemorrhage due to the loss of blood.

Japan Daijiro Kato	April 20 2003	Honda RC211V	Gresini Racing	Between 340R and Casio Triangle	Motorcycle	Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix race

Exiting the 85R/340R double-apex (sometimes called 130R, a reference to the 130m radius curve prior to the 2003 revisions) on Lap 3, Kato high-sided on the straight exiting 340R, braking for the Casio Triangle.

Japan Keisuke Sato	12 June 2005	Honda CBR600RR	Second Corner	Motorcycle	200 km of Suzuka qualifying

On the last lap of a qualifying session for a 200-kilometer race, Sato lost control of his bike when he attempted to swerve around a pool of fuel left on the track after another accident involving two other competitors causing him to run off the road and hit a safety barrier, causing him fatal thoracic injuries, resulting in his death.

Japan Osamu Nakajima	21 October 2012	Nissan 350Z	First Corner	Car	FIA WTCC Race of Japan meet - Super Taikyu

During the FIA World Touring Car Championship Race of Japan meet, Nakajima's car slipped in oil from a previous incident at First Corner on Lap 11 that was not cleaned (in some classes of motorsport, marshals will call the safety car to clean up oil for competitors' interest of safety), sliding off the road and hitting the wall, resulting in the driver's death.

France Jules Bianchi	5 October 2014	Marussia MR03	Marussia F1	Dunlop Corner	Car	2014 Japanese Grand Prix

On lap 42 of the Grand Prix, Adrian Sutil had spun into the runoff area at Dunlop Corner, in heavy rain, and a crane tractor was deployed to attend to his car.

Sentence(s)

Deaths at the Suzuka Circuit track have included death of Honda RC211V racer Daijiro Kato on April 20, 2003, at the Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix race.

final_sentence: Deaths at the Suzuka Circuit track have included death of Honda RC211V racer Daijiro Kato on April 20, 2003, at the Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix race.