Driver 'dozing off' before accident killing 6 kids

Driver 'dozing off' before accident killing 6 kids

KANUMA, Japan - Masato Shibata, a truck driver arrested over a fatal accident in which six children died, walks out of a police station in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 19, 2011, before being sent to a prosecutors office. Shibata told the police that he fell asleep behind the steering wheel before his truck ran into elementary school students on their way to school the previous day. (Kyodo)

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