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Lawyer for 89-year-old driver of car that killed woman, 3-year-old daughter blames faulty brake Dec. 15, 2020 01:00 pm JST Dec. 15, 2020 | 05:38 pm JST TOKYO
The trial of an 89-year-old man charged with dangerous driving resulting in death resumed in Tokyo on Monday.
Mana Matsunaga, 31, and her daughter, Riko, 3, were fatally hit by a driver in Tokyo s Ikebukuro District on April 19, 2019. Kozo Iizuka, 89, a former senior bureaucrat of the now-defunct Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, has pleaded not guilty to negligent driving resulting in death.
Prosecutors maintain Iizuka went through a red light after pressing the accelerator instead of the brake pedal. His car, traveling at more than 90 kilometers per hour, swerved before hitting Matsunaga and her daughter who were on a bicycle.