Joban Road Aori Driving Company officers for extortion charges, etc. Today's first trial July 27, 4:44
The first trial of a 44-year-old company officer who has been accused of extortion after driving on the Joban Expressway in Ibaraki Prefecture and the highways in Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures will be held in the Mito District Court on the 27th. .. Defendants are expected to acknowledge any charges indicted, and attention will be paid to what they say in court.
Company officer Fumio Miyazaki (44) drove on the Joban Expressway in Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture in August last year, forcibly stopped a car employee's car on the main line and injured him. He is accused of extortion and injury.
In addition, in July of last year, he was accused of extortion because he drove on highways in Okazaki, Aichi and Hamamatsu, Shizuoka.
The first trial of these three cases was held in the Mito District Court on the 27th, and the defendant is expected to acknowledge all the charges.
In response to a series of damages caused by malicious driving such as this incident, penal regulations have been strengthened such as imprisonment for up to 5 years.
It will be noted how the defendant, who is said to have been driving repeatedly in various places, speaks in court.
Summary of the incident
In August of last year, a "drifting" incident occurred on the Joban Expressway in Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The video of the drive recorder recorded a scene in which a corporate officer, Fumio Miyazaki, accused a male employee of a company employee to drive a car and then forcibly stop the vehicle on the main line and hit him.
The police proceeded with the investigation on the basis of these images and made a wanted order nationwide.
Defendant Miyazaki was in his hometown of Osaka, but was arrested eight days after the incident on suspicion of injury.
In a subsequent investigation, police arrested a man's car on the main line forcibly stopping the man's car repeatedly due to repeated obstacles such as diversion and sudden braking. It was unusual for criminal extortion charges to be applied to tilt-driving.
The prosecutor's office determined that he had criminal liability after conducting a psychological examination by an expert for about three months, and charged him with extortion and injury.
Also, the defendants were forced to repeat a meandering operation and sudden braking on the Shin-Tomei Expressway in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture and the Tomei Expressway in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, even in the month before the case of the Joban Expressway. Was charged with the charges.
Strengthening penalties by amending the law
Three years ago about “drift driving”, a wagon car that stopped due to driving on the Tomei Expressway in Kanagawa prefecture three years ago was hit by a subsequent truck, an accident in which four families were killed and injured, and the Joban Expressway last year Due to a series of bad driving accidents such as the case of, the revision of the law was promoted, and the revised Road Traffic Law, which strengthened the penalties, came into effect on the 30th of last month.
The tilting drive, which has not been defined legally until now, is defined as “interfering driving”, and if you do a risk of crossing, sudden braking, persistent horns, etc. or cause danger, you will be subject to crackdown and the maximum penalty is 5. You will be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than a year or a fine of not more than 1 million yen.
In addition, you will be subject to license revocation due to administrative sanction, and you will not be able to re-acquire for a certain period.
According to the National Police Agency, the number of cases arrested for extremely narrowing the inter-vehicle distance was 15065 cases nationwide last year, which is more than 2000 cases compared to the previous year.
The police are planning to further strengthen the control of malicious driving.