Police in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly ran over a moped rider with his car.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 1:15 a.m. on July 31, Fuji TV reported. Police said Tomoya Kamijo, a company employee, ran over the 57-year-old moped rider who had parked his moped when the incident occurred. The victim’s colleague called 110.
Kamijo initially drove away but returned to the scene and was arrested. Police said he has partially denied the charge and quoted him as saying, “The moped was in front of me but no one was there.”
The victim sustained minor injuries, police said, adding that they are investigating whether there was any trouble between the two men before the incident.
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shogun36
And even if “no one was there”, drive in another direction, fool!
What kind of car did he have anyways?
Kind of hard to “accidentally” run over a moped.
Gotta be drunk or not be the owner of the car to do something stupid like that.
Zaphod
From the article is difficult to figure out what happened.
Do the hustle
Sounds like there’s a bit of road rage behind this.
rainyday
This is just quibbling over semantics, isn't it?
Sven Asai
No one was there…What if he of course accidentally hit the moped, but only that and the ‘victim’ stood only nearby or farther away and injured slightly himself or by his colleague afterwards to have it dramatically look like an attempted murder, let’s say to get significantly more out of the case at the court than some money for only a little damage at the moped?
Yukijin
You only have to bump elbows with somebody and they proclaim いった and start dreaming up their JA insurance claim.
rainyday
Yeah but the key point is that the suspect hit the guy with his car. Whether he literally drove the car on top of him or the car just knocked him over to the side or over the roof, etc doesn't make him any more or less culpable for that.
JeffLee
He "parked" but was still on his moped?!? It sounds like he stopped his bike, rather than parked. Was this a parking lot? A road?
The victim had a "colleague"? Yet the was driving a one-person vehicle. Where the colleague come from?
I actually take a perverse pleasure in reading these JT stories, since the missing but essential missing info gives me my Sherlock Holmes moments.
Strangerland
JT wouldn’t have a comment section if not for armchair detectives.