CHIBA The district court here handed a 14-year prison sentence to a truck driver who killed two young children and injured three others while driving drunk.
The Chiba District Court found Hiroshi Umezawa guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol when he crashed into a group of children heading home from school.
A Japanese court has sentenced a 61-year-old man to 14 years in prison for a drunk-driving accident that left two elementary school children dead and three others severely injured near Tokyo last year.
The Chiba District Court on Friday sentenced a 61-year-old man to 14 years in prison for dangerous driving resulting in death and injury after the truck he was driving plowed into a group of schoolchildren, killing two of them and injuring three others in Yachimata, Chiba Prefecture, last year. During…