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Harry_Gatto
Good that he has been put away but, was the truck driver prosecuted? He should have been driving such that he could stop within his "seeing distance".
ListenTheTruth
44 when he gets out, still lots of life to live, after seeing to the death of two innocent people, the destruction of a family and the scarring of two children, and his sheer arrogance, I’d have expected the full asked 23, if not more. Have a horrible time, please, really, have a horrible time.
Speed
Good! Guess I'll have a beer tonight to celebrate. Hate holes like him on the roads.
Koh Giaphuan
Charge him with manslaughter if he doesn't want to be charged with reckless driving.
Omachi
It is a shame his sentence wasn't longer. Drivers are supposed to be professionals - hence the license.
GW
….This truly beggars belief!! A highway is NOT A PARKING LOT!! This should take a nano second to recognize this was ISANELY DANGEROUS DRIVING!!!
Why on earth cant these courts recognize that CLEARLY a vehicle DOESNT have to be MOVING to be DANGEROUS DRIVING!!
I feel like we were lucky the guy was convicted......
serendipitous1
This aggressive idiot Ishibashi had done similar things 2 or 3 other times apparently.
18 years of your adult life is a big chunk to miss but he completely deserves it.
Kabukilover
I agree that Ishibashi should have gotten more time. Even 23 years for causing the death of two innocent people is too kind.
Japan is a wise country in how it determines who should and should not have a gun. But it is loco in being lenient with bad drivers. If Ishibashi had taken a test for a car license that was a tough as that for a gun permit he would not have had his license. I suppose the carmakers’ lobby here is like the NRA in the U.S.
There is an overabundance of rotten drivers in Japan: from the creeps who absolutely will not stop for pedestrians to the stupid tailgaters on the highway. Ishibashi was only one of the worst of a very bad lot,
kurisupisu
I’ve seen many incidents of bad driving, tailgating and road rage when I had an idiot slam on his brakes after pulling in suddenly as a form of malicious attack on me.
Well, Ishibashi deserves every second of his time locked-up!
Do the hustle
It is a worthy sentence. However, it’s not going to do anything to stop the other rat bags on the roads using their cars as weapons and abusing other drivers. I’ve had it happen to me quite a few times. I had one idiot that wanted to fight me because I was doing the speed limit on a back street. When the road opened up he jumped on the gas, pulled around in front me and stopped in the middle of the road. He got out of his car and started screaming at me to get out of my car. I just picked up my phone and started filming him. He persisted for a few more minutes and got in his car and took off. I went to the cop shop and showed them the film of this idiot and his car, clearly showing his face and number plate and the cops just looked at me with a big “So what?” expression on their faces. Road rage is real in Japan. Many drivers use their cars as weapons and J-flops don’t give a fat rat’s! Be careful people!
Kabukilover
On reflection, I wonder if Ishibashi is suffering any guilt over his part in the deaths of a mother and a father. Over the next 18 years will he be remoseful or will he see himself as a hapless victim? Or will he simply shrug it off as something that cannot be helped?
I don’t know. I am only thankful Japan has strict gun control laws. Imagine if some of the less than wonderful drivers mentioned above packed guns in their cars.
Okay, here is another road rage story. We drive a foreign car. We drive it in accordance with the speed limit. This guy in his modest car tailgated us, blow his horn and when he was along side us shouted inappropriate words at us. We got the idea that he was jealous of us. This was a first time experience. Hoping it is the last.
Alex Einz
not enough,add manslaughter to it
he should never see the outside, in fact i rather they hang him
buchailldana
Good. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The guy is an.......
ClippetyClop
I'd like to know more about this. In fact, I'd like to know what actually happened,
canadianbento
People that cause other innocent people to die because of their bad behaviour all need to be put in Prison!
Chottobaka
Two people dead. Orphan children. All maliciously caused by this POS. Why not a life sentence, at minimum? Not nearly enough punishment.
Chico3
But the vehicle was moving on the highway and then stopped without reasonable distance between the two vehicles. And, who in the world stops their vehicle on highway unless they are in trouble, which apparently this guy was not? Weak defence.