The Tokyo District Court sentenced a 90-year-old defendant to five years' imprisonment for a runaway car in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, killing his mother and children and injuring nine others. I handed it over.

This accident triggered a renewed attention to the problem of elderly drivers, and the number of people who voluntarily returned their driver's licenses in the year of the accident reached a record high, especially among the elderly, and had a major impact on society. rice field.