Police Arrest Driver of Car that Hit Students in Saitama Prefecture

Police arrest driver of car that hit students in Saitama Prefecture

Police on Sunday arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in injury and violation of the Road Traffic Act (hit-and-run) after he plowed into a group of elementary school children on May 14, seriously injuring four of them, in Misato City, Saitama Prefecture. Police said the suspect,…

A Chinese Man Arrested in Connection with Hit-and-Run in Misato, Saitama Prefecture

SAITAMA — Saitama prefectural police arrested a man on Sunday after four elementary school students were injured in Wednesday’s hit-and-run in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. According to police, he turned himself in to the Yoshikawa Police Station in Sunday’s morning.

In a case where a car crashed into a group of elementary school students on a city road in Misato City, Saitama Prefecture, leaving four boys with serious and minor injuries, the prefectural police arrested the driver, Chinese demolition worker Deng Hongpeng (42) of the same city, on suspicion of violating the Automobile Driving Punishment Act (negligent injury) and the Road Traffic Act (hit-and-run) on the 18th. According to the prefectural pol…

On the 14th, a hit-and-run incident occurred in Misato City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, where several elementary school students were hit by a car, and four boys were injured to varying degrees. Japanese police investigation and judgment showed that there were two people in the car at the time of the accident. The owner of the car was a Chinese man, who was most likely the driver at the time of the accident. The man's whereabouts are still unkno…