Actor Hirosue fined 700,000 yen for negligent driving causing injury

SHIZUOKA, Japan - A court fined Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue 700,000 yen ($4,470) for negligent driving resulting in injury after she rear-ended a trailer truck on an expressway in central Japan in April last year, leaving a male passenger in her vehicle with a fracture.

The Kakegawa Summary Court in Shizuoka Prefecture issued the fine after prosecutors sought summary proceedings against Hirosue, 45, last month. She was not pursued by prosecutors over allegations that she assaulted a nurse at the hospital where she was taken after the accident.