(1)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Takashi Usami (in file photo), former chairman of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., was arrested May 6 along with six other former senior officials of the company and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002.

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