YOKOHAMA - A probe was launched Sunday into an accident involving an automated train the previous night in Yokohama which left 14 hurt, including six with serious injuries. Officials from the Japan Transport Safety Board began examining the train cars at Shin-Sugita Station on the Kanazawa Seaside Line. Investigators are considering a charge of professional negligence resulting in injuries, police sources said. At 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, an automated train operated by Yokohama Seaside Line Co. traveled in the wrong direction for about 25 meters at a speed of 6 kph. The train had been set to depart the station but instead moved backward and crashed into a buffer at Shin-Sugita Station.

YOKOHAMA - An automated train operated by Yokohama Seaside Line Co. on Saturday traveled in the wrong direction, causing about 20 people to be injured, a local fire department said. Some appeared to have suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries as the train made contact with a buffer stop at Shin-Sugita Station, the department said, but other details were not immediately available. The trains are on an automated guideway transit system connecting Shin-Sugita and Kanazawa Hakkei in Yokohama.