Kozo Iizuka (飯塚 幸三, Iizuka Kōzō; IPA: [iizuka koː(d)zoː]; June 1, 1931 – October 26, 2024) was a Japanese engineer who served as Director of the AIST and President of the International Measurement Confederation and Human Frontier Science Program among other positions. On April 19, 2019, while driving his car, he caused a fatal accident that resulted in deaths of two people and injuries of nine people (including his wife on the car) in what is called the Higashi-Ikebukuro runaway car crash.
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