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Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a 27-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of endangering traffic and forcible obstruction of business after he drove his minivan onto the railroad tracks of the Enoshima Electric Railway (Enoden Line) in Fujisawa in April.
Police said Taiko Shibuya drove his vehicle for about 130 meters along the tracks near Enoshima Station at around 8:50 p.m. on April 4, Kyodo News reported. The minivan overturned, causing several trains to make an emergency stop.
Police said Shibuya, who was arrested on Monday, has denied the allegation, calling the accusation “entirely groundless.”
While no injuries were reported, police and the rail operator said that train services were suspended for about 2 1/2 hours, affecting approximately 1,600 passengers.
Shibuya initially told police that he “mistakenly entered the train tracks.” However, eyewitness reports suggest that he intentionally drove onto the tracks.
© Japan Today
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Spidey
I don't think the "I don't remember." excuse is going to work in this case.
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sakurasuki
Probably the tracks is not that obvious.
pudus
"he drove his minivan onto the railroad tracks" stupid is as stupid does-Forest Gump "Mom said"
Derek Grebe
He should try the "I mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal" line which works so well for our venerable retired community when they risk lives with incompetent driving.
Azzprin
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after the first 13 meters he should have noiced the very bumby surface he was on, was not a road.
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Was this an attempt to commit suicide ?
diagonalslip
“entirely groundless.” that's my feelgood guffaw for the day, now I can ignore 'the news' till tomorrow.....
sir_bentley28
When you play too much GTA5!
Rodney
2 and a half hours, times 1600 passengers, should translate to the number of hours he should do community service.
Sven Asai
Of course it’s entirely groundless. Considering darkness and usage of the navigation system…. Maybe a few still don’t know, but GPS signals are intentionally quite biased due to military reasons, sometimes even 30, 50 meters or maybe even more, 150 or 300 meters deviation are probably seldom, but possible. They simply can’t fully prove your guilt, or they have to show you, by entering the train tracks too, proving that the used navigation system , at the same time of darkness and under the same exact GPS satellite constellation shows something else in every attempt. But then they are doing multiple times the same you did and also become similar criminals and traffic disrupters.
thinkbefore
Looks like it was intentional but the question I have for the man is why? He needs to get a job too. There are no excuses. There is plenty of work out there.
nandakandamanda
The guy was shown on TV putting his hands together between utterances as if praying or invoking gods or absolving (someone) in onmyoji geomancy gestures, like Abe no Seimei. What was he smoking, I wondered?
3RENSHO
"The guy was shown on TV..."-- He looks like a drug user...
yuulfuji
There isn’t any way this could be done unintentionally? Even considering a lot of circumstances, I don’t see how you can “accidentally” drive onto a train track.