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The title of [a story on NHK News Web
Easy](http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10010409381000/k10010409381000.html) is

> バスの事故{じこ} スピードを上{あ}げながら走{はし}り続{つづ}けた **か**

Which, with my abilities, translates as

> Bus accident. As speed increased it kept running?

I don't understand why that か is there at the end of the sentence though. Is
the title of the story actually a question? Or does this signify something
else? Frankly I'm not even sure my translation is correct. It seems an odd
thing to say, since a speed increase would seem to imply that of course the
bus kept running. If the bus wasn't running, the speed would go down,
generally speaking.
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translation particle-か modality
か at the end of a news story title. Is it a question?
Yes, this か marks a question. An alternative translation might help clarify:

> Bus accident: did [the driver / the bus] keep accelerating?

This is clearly the question the police are asking in the article -- the bus
was coming down a roughly 1km (probably steep) downhill grade, and at the time
of the accident, the bus was moving at 96kph, nearly double to 50kph speed
limit.

**Translation note:** The bit スピードを上げながら走り続けた literally breaks down as
_"continued running while increasing the speed"_. This is idiomatic as
Japanese, but not as English -- the underlying meaning is _continued
accelerating_ , since the _driving_ or _running_ part is clear in the English,
and explicitly stating it sounds odd: one cannot make a vehicle accelerate
without driving.
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