Three men and women were arrested on the Shin Tomei Expressway in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture, for stealing another car that had stopped to ensure the safety of the passenger car that caused the accident.

The passenger car that caused the accident has been reported as a stolen car, and police are investigating that three people were afraid of being stolen and fled.

The arrested were a self-proclaimed painter, Yasufuku Ise (41), a man in his thirties whose address and name were unknown, and a suspect, Maaya Kyoto, who was unemployed in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is (29).



According to police, after 3:00 am on the 14th, a passenger car with three passengers collided with a large truck on the Shin Tomei Expressway in Shimada City, and the car broke severely and stopped in the overtaking lane.



After that, when the man running behind got out of the car and assisted to ensure safety, three people saw a gap and got into the man's car, stole it, and escaped.



While police were searching for their whereabouts, they found three suspicious people in Shimada and Kakegawa and arrested them on suspicion of theft.



None of the police have revealed whether they have admitted the charges.



According to investigators, the passenger car that caused the accident was reported to the police as a stolen car, and the police are investigating the detailed situation, assuming that three people fled for fear of discovering the theft of the car.

The victim man is ...

Shingo Sugimura (45) from Takatsuki City, Osaka, whose passenger car was stolen, responded to the interview.



Mr. Sugimura runs a motorcycle shop in Osaka, and he was heading to Osaka with the motorcycles used by the athletes in the race.



According to Mr. Sugimura, after 3:00 am on the 14th, when he was driving in the overtaking lane on the down line of the Shin Tomei Expressway in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture, he witnessed an accident in which a passenger car collided with a large truck in front of him.



For this reason, I stopped the passenger car I was driving in the driving lane, put up a cone sign behind it, and told the three men and women of the car that caused the accident, "This is safe, so please come over." It means that he called out.



At this time, the woman was dragging her legs and the young man was bleeding.



After that, when I was trying to ensure safety by hitting a smoke bomb, the three people got into Mr. Sugimura's car without permission and ran away as it was.



Mr. Sugimura said on Twitter, "There was an accident in front of me and it was dangerous, so when I left the smoke bomb, I took the Hiace to the trio who caused the accident and escaped. Please capture someone!" I wrote and called for information.



I also posted an image of a white passenger car that seems to have been in a trio, in which the passenger car had a broken door on the passenger seat side that was hollowed out and stopped at the side of the road in the tunnel.



Mr. Sugimura's series of tweets has been reprinted more than 20,000 times, and it can be seen that many people tried to cooperate in providing information.



Mr. Sugimura said, "The three of us got on the bike in a minute or two when we took our eyes off. I was impatient because I also posted the bikes of the athletes who will be in the All Japan Championship, so I posted information on SNS. I called for the offer. I am grateful that the police found the car, but I felt like I should forgive it until I found it. "



He added, "At first, the accident was so severe that I thought it was a fatal accident, so I'm relieved that there wasn't the worst. I'm glad I didn't have any serious injuries."