Man arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run involving 9-year-old boy
TAKAMATSU —
An office worker in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, has been arrested over a hit-and-run incident involving a 9-year-old boy. The man, who has been identified as 21-year-old Kengo Okamoto, was driving through Kitacho at around 4:45 p.m. on Feb 4 when he allegedly ran over the boy, who lived nearby.
He then allegedly left the scene and drove away. The child suffered from bone fractures to his face and other injuries from which it is expected to take him 6 months to recover. During police questioning, Okamoto claimed to have borrowed the car from an acquaintance and was quoted as saying: “I didn’t want the owner to find out I’d had an accident.”
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cactusJack
my kids, walking, almost got hit by a dude in a car Sunday. He(Japanese male, age 55) didn't stop, even though there was clearly a crosswalk. I ran up to the guy and shouted at him and he said, "They(the kids) saw me, so I don't have stop." I was this close to giving him a knuckle sandwich.
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Gurukun
LOL! That's the worst excuse I've heard in a long time. I hope the child makes a speedy recovery. Broken face bones? That's got to hurt. I pray the kid comes out of this with no trauma.
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goddog
Why such a long recovery? Japanese people seem to take forever to recover. Good luck kid.
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pamelot
What a selfish jerk.
An accident with a 9 year olds' face? Gotta love this guy's empathy.
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Kenguy
I have also observed that news reports often state what seem to be fairly long recovery times for injuries, but broken face-bones? Ouch. From western news publications I would expect an explanation that went far enough to specify the injury's location to go a bit further and explain the type, like: broken nose/cheekbone, fractured skull/orbital socket, ect. How fast was the car moving? Was the kid crossing at a marked intersection when he was struck at high speed and dragged or did he dart out between parked delivery trucks and hit the side of a slow-moving car with his (nonspecific face-bone)?
I hope the kid got to a hospital quickly. Broken bones usually hurt a lot.
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smithinjapan
Gurukun:“I didn’t want the owner to find out I’d had an accident.”
It is indeed a very poor excuse, but more believable than half the ones you hear when some drunk or kid playing with his cell phone goes up on the sidewalk and kills a bunch of people.
I'm with Kenguy in wanting to know more details. If the kid darted in front of the car, while the guy still needs to be punished, it should be lessened. But for driving away and having to be tracked down and make up lame excuses... well... he's going to get it.
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Youdontknow
Cactus-Jack - had it been my kid, he would most definitely have gotten the blunt end. You should have threatened to call the cops and watch him squirm.
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cactusJack
@ Youdontknow - He was pulling out of a parking lot, and I did get a pic of his license plate...and if I see his car parked there again, I may have the sudden urge to buy some fresh eggs.
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BarnabeJay
These kinds of crime stories seem to end up on JT every other day, and the perp always seems to have the most utterly inhuman comment about why they did it. The attitude these people have is uniquely disturbing, devoid of empathy and conscience. Are there really so many sociopaths in this country?
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