Asahi: Road rules
He was on the verge of being labeled a criminal, the perpetrator of an act that left the crushed body of a 12-year-old girl on a highway in the middle of the night. Unable to dispel the hit-and-run allegations, the man drove down a forest road and then burned himself alive in his vehicle...The double tragedy started around 1:50 a.m. on March 26, when Misato Kokubo...apparently began suffering motion sickness while on a sightseeing bus...She opened a window, but fell through and landed on the busy Tomei Expressway. She was then struck by several vehicles that were trailing the bus. The results of an autopsy indicated that the injuries she suffered from the fall would have eventually led to her death. But doctors said she was alive before she was hit by the first vehicle. For that reason, Shizuoka prefectural police investigated the case as a fatal hit-and-run accident...more...
