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Japan Today
6 days ago
- Japan Today
Police arrest driver who left 2 children in car after crash on Tomei Expressway
Police in Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 47-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of violating the Road Traffic Act for driving without a license and abandoning a car at the scene of an accident. Police said the man, Akiya Kurebayashi, fled from the scene, leaving two children, aged 8 and 7, in the back seat of the car, NTV reported. According to police, the accident occurred at around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday on a bridge over the Tomei Expressway in Chuo Ward in Hamamatsu City. The car driven by Kurebayashi crashed through a guardrail and fell about 10 meters onto the Tomei Expressway. Kurebayashi was uninjured and left the scene. The two children suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital. Local media quoted a witness as saying,"The driver crawled out of the car. I asked him what happened and he said he dozed off for a few seconds. He wasn't angry at himself for causing the accident or like he'd done something. He had a smartphone in one hand." Police found Kurebayashi walking alone in a hotel parking lot in Chuo Ward on Monday morning and he was arrested. Police said his driver's license had been revoked about 10 years ago after a hit-and-run incident, and the car he was driving was registered to someone else. According to police, the siblings in the car are the children of Kurebayashi's common-law wife. © Japan Today
The Mainichi
6 days ago
- The Mainichi
Japan police arrest driver who fled after car carrying 2 kids fell from bridge onto highway
HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka -- Police searching for a driver who left two children inside a vehicle that crashed through the side of a bridge and fell onto the shoulder of an expressway in this central Japan city arrested a 47-year-old man on June 2. Hamamatsu Chuo Police Station arrested Akiya Kurebayashi, a self-proclaimed unemployed resident of the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Omaezaki, on suspicion of violating the Road Traffic Act by driving without a license and failing to report an accident. Kurebayashi is accused of crashing into a guardrail while driving without a license on a municipal road in Hamamatsu's Chuo Ward at about 1:30 p.m. on June 1. The vehicle fell from the Hikumano Bridge onto the shoulder of the Tomei Expressway, but Kurebayashi allegedly left the scene without reporting the accident to police. Neither of the two children in the car was injured. The driver left the vehicle and children behind, fleeing before the police arrived, but was arrested in the same ward the following morning. He reportedly had had his driver's license revoked several years before. The police have not disclosed whether the suspect has admitted to the charges nor revealed his relationship with the children found inside the car. They are investigating the detailed causes of the accident. (Japanese original by Shiho Fujibuchi, Shizuoka Bureau)
