The Tokyo High Court held the second trial in a retrial for a defendant who was charged with inflicting loss of life or harm by harmful driving on the Tomei Expressway in Kanagawa Prefecture seven years in the past, killing and injuring 4 members of the family after driving erratically. The defendant was discovered responsible of inflicting loss of life or harm by harmful driving on the grounds that the accident was attributable to the defendant’s obstructive driving, and was sentenced to 18 years in jail, the identical as within the first trial.

