A junior high school student died while he was running away from school and arrested a man driving a car Tokyo Edogawa May 8 4:03
On the 7th, a 12-year-old junior high school boy in the Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, was hit by a car and died. The school was closed due to the new coronavirus, and the boy was on his way to a nearby park after studying at home.
Around noon on the 7th, a child crossing a pedestrian crossing a bicycle at an intersection in Kitakoiwa, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, was hit by a wagon car running from the left and died.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, it was confirmed that the death was in Yoichi Nei (12), a first-year middle school student who lived nearby.
The school was closed due to the new coronavirus, and Nei-kun studied at home in the morning, had lunch, and was on the way to the park in Katsushika-ku.
Although the car was on the run, the Metropolitan Police Department found Hiroshi Shibuya (53) who was driving the car in Chiba Prefecture and arrested him on the night of the 7th on a suspicion of a runaway.
In response to the investigation, after admitting the suspicion, he explained that he was trying to go fishing in the Edogawa.
Nei-kun was crossing a pedestrian crossing, so the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating in detail what kind of situation the car was hit at that time.