Is it fatal accident by "while driving" Niigata Nagaoka October 10 14:19

Last month, a 71-year-old man was hit by a car on the side of a national road in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, and a police investigation revealed that the man who was driving the car was using a smartphone at the time. It was.

On the 21st of last month, a 71-year-old man who was walking alongside a national road in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, was hit by a passenger car and died. Arrested on suspicion of

In response to police investigation, Maruyama initially said that he had dropped the smartphone and picked it up and didn't notice the pedestrian, but when the police examined the communication records, I understood that was running.

Maruyama admitted that he was using a smartphone while driving.

Last year in Niigata Prefecture, a woman who was riding a motorcycle on a smartphone “while driving” was hit and killed, and the bereaved family asked for the application of a more guilty dangerous driving deadly crime. There is a growing demand for stricter punishment for deaths.