Police have arrested a 58-year-old truck driver on suspicion of hit-and-run after a truck hit and killed a 1-year-old boy on a national highway in Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture, and then fled the scene.
The person arrested was Katsumi Kamata (58), a truck driver from Ebina City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
According to the police, shortly after 5 a.m. on the 8th, a 1-year-old Vietnamese national, Tran Nhat Quoc, was hit and killed by a truck on a national highway in Sunada Town, Higashimatsuyama City, and the suspect was suspected of a hit-and-run as the truck ran away. It is held.
At around 6 a.m. on the 8th, the suspect Kamata collided with a guardrail on a national highway 9 kilometers away from the scene and reported it to the police himself. Police were investigating the suspect as being involved in the boy's death.
In response to police investigation, he denied the charges, saying, ``I bumped into something, but I didn't think it was a person.''
The boy who died lived with his parents about 100 meters from the scene, but his father went out to pick up his mother from work and when he returned, the boy was gone. is.