東名あおり事故、無罪主張　被告「危険運転してない」―一家４人死傷差し戻し審・横浜地裁

　神奈川県大井町の東名高速道路で２０１７年、「あおり運転」で停止させられた乗用車にトラックが追突し、一家４人が死傷した事故で、自動車運転処罰法違反（危険運転致死傷）罪などに問われた無職石橋和歩被告（３０）の差し戻し裁判員裁判の初公判が２７日、横浜地裁（青沼潔裁判長）であった。石橋被告は「事故になるような危険な運転はしていない」と述べ、無罪を主張した。判決は３月１６日の予定。
　冒頭陳述で検察側は、石橋被告は一家の乗用車を追い越して前方に割り込み、減速を繰り返したと指摘。乗用車側は衝突の危険を覚えて高速道路上で止まるしかないと判断し、被告の行為は妨害運転に当たると主張した。
　弁護側は、停止を余儀なくさせる危険な運転はしていないと主張。４人の死傷は後続の大型トラックによる「無謀な運転」が原因だと訴えた。（2022/01/27-17:11）

A 30-year-old man pleaded not guilty on Thursday over a 2017 high-profile fatal expressway road rage case.
   In the first hearing of his do-over trial at Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, Kazuho Ishibashi said that he has not committed the crime of dangerous driving resulting in death and injury.
   "I didn't drive in a dangerous way that would result in an accident," Ishibashi said.
   In the road rage incident, which occurred on the Tomei Expressway in the Kanagawa town of Oi on the night of June 5, 2017, self-employed Yoshihisa Hagiyama, then 45, from the central city of Shizuoka and his wife, Yuka, then 39, died and their two daughters suffered injuries after the family's car was rear-ended by a truck.
   In their opening statement, the prosecution claimed that Ishibashi's car passed the victim family's car and pulled in front of it. Ishibashi then slowed down, so that the distance between his and the family's cars was about 5 meters.