FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A 68-year-old bus driver arrested over a recent fatal crash on an expressway in northeastern Japan had been involved in repeated traffic accidents earlier this year, an investigative source said Saturday.

Tetsuo Wakayama has been arrested on suspicion of negligent driving after a minibus carrying members of a senior high school boys' tennis team crashed into a guardrail on the Banetsu Expressway in Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday morning while he was at the wheel.

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