A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to three years in prison, suspended for five years, following an accident in which one of the wheels of a modified car he was driving came off and hit a girl, who remains in a coma.The Sapporo District Court gave the suspended term to Toyoshi Wakamoto, 51, after the wheel came loose and hit the 5-year-old girl, who was walking along the road, in November 2023.Masamitsu Tanaka, 51, owner of the vehicle, meanwhile, was fined 200,000 yen ($1,400) for illegally modifying the vehicle.According to the ruling, the suspension of the car was extended in a…READ FULL ARTICLE
