Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishYuki Yazawa, 30, did not enter a plea at the first hearing of his attempted-murder trial over the 2025 incident in Nishinari, telling the court he would remain silent and wanted no reduction in sentence.
The vehicle struck a fisheries worker before going into the water at the Kottoi market, severing his left foot. The crash happened before the day's auction began.
A stop sign, a stop line and a 3D road marking all sit at the same junction in Yokoshibahikari. Police count 53 collisions there in about six years, and crash footage shows most drivers entering without braking.
The Tsu District Court gave Mizutani Mizuyo the maximum term allowed for fatal negligent driving. She did not appeal by the November 4 deadline.
A 4-year-old girl is still unconscious three years after a wheel came off a moving car in Hokkaido. As drivers fit winter tires, large-vehicle wheel losses rose to 128 in fiscal 2025, and a sensor already sold abroad has yet to reach Japan.
