It was three years ago on April 19 that an 87-year-old man accidentally ran a red light and plowed his car into a crowd of pedestrians and cyclists in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, leaving two dead and injuring nine others, some severely.
In September 2021, the driver of the car, Kozo Iizuka, a former senior government official now aged 90, was sentenced to five years in prison for negligent driving resulting in death and injury. The court determined that the cause of the accident was Iizuka mistaking the brakes and accelerator.
