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Mizutani Mitsuyo

  1. Ruling: former truck driver gets maximum 7-year prison term over Shin-Meishin crash that killed 6

    Tsu District Court in Mie Prefecture on Oct 20 sentenced former truck driver Mizutani Mitsuyo, 55, of Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, to seven years' imprisonment for negligent driving causing death — the statutory maximum and matching the prosecution's request — over the March 20 rear-end crash on the Shin-Meishin Expressway outbound that killed six. Prosecutors said she spent about 10 of roughly 13 seconds before impact watching a TikTok cooking video and checking a driving log on her phone, then hit a stopped queue at about 82 km/h; the dead included a family of five from Fukuroi, Shizuoka, and a 56-year-old employee from Soka, Saitama. The defendant admitted the indictment and apologised.

    Oct 20, 2026 Afternoon