US EditionPeruvian Man Arrested After Hitting Vehicles While Driving the Wrong Way in Japan
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Man arrested after driving wrong way on expressway, hitting multiple vehicles
A Peruvian man has been arrested after he allegedly drove his car the wrong way on an expressway in central Japan and collided with multiple vehicles, police said Tuesday. The 34-year-old resident of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, was arrested on Monday, with police accusing him of failing to report an accident…
It was learned on the 20th from investigators that a Peruvian man arrested in connection with an accident in which a passenger car drove the wrong way on the Shin-Meishin Expressway in Kameyama City, Mie Prefecture, and collided with an oncoming vehicle, had obtained his license under the "foreign license conversion" system, which allows drivers to switch their home country's driver's license to a Japanese license.
[Kameyama] On the 19th, interviews with the prefectural police and others revealed that a car traveling the wrong way on the outbound Shin-Meishin Expressway in Kameyama City, Mie Prefecture, involved six cars and injured four people. The car traveling the wrong way ran away from the scene, and the prefectural police are pursuing the car. According to the prefectural police and Central Nippon Expressway, at around 11:00 a.m. on the 18th, a chain…
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