EDITORIAL: Strengthen transport rules to protect passengers

The Asahi Shimbun Friday 4th May, 2012

A chartered tour bus driver who caused an accident on the Kanetsu Expressway that killed seven and injured 39 passengers on April 29 reportedly told police he nodded off at the wheel from exhaustion.

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