A 39-year-old woman was arrested Sunday over the hit-and-run death of an elderly woman in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture.
According to police, the suspect, identified as Emiko Tanabe, hit and killed Shineko Saito at about 5:45 a.m. on Saturday, NTV reported. Tanabe and her husband went to a police station on Saturday afternoon and she turned herself in, police said.
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gaijinfo
I wonder if the poor woman would still have died if she'd stopped and called an ambulance.
Saulo Akazawa
Terrible thing to do!!! Maybe panic took the best of her?? RIP poor woman!!!
Disillusioned
Panic? How about cowardliness?