Court denies company executives' negligence in deadly tunnel collapse

Relatives of five of the nine people killed in the December 2012 Sasago Tunnel roof collapse on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture head to the Yokohama District Court in Yokohama on Feb. 16, 2016. Later in the day the court rejected their claim that negligence by executives of a Nagoya-based expressway operator and its road maintenance subsidiary contributed to the roof's collapse. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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