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Ahead of its traffic safety campaign this spring, the National Police Agency reported that 30 elementary school pupils died in traffic accidents involving the bicycles they were riding from 2017 to 2021.
In the incident, a truck ran into a line of children walking home from school in Yachimata in June last year, killing two boys and severely injuring three other children.
Fatal traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers per 100,000 people stood at 5.7 — more than double the amount from drivers under 75 years old.
A 60-year-old man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving resulting in death and injury after the truck he was driving plowed into a group of schoolchildren, killing two of them and injuring three others in Yachimata, Chiba Prefecture, on June 28. During the first session of his trial at the Chiba…
Prosecutors say Hiroshi Umezawa drained a 220-milliliter bottle of distilled spirits at a parking area before plowing into a line of children in late June.