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Passionate chocolate pass leads to arrests following fatal crash

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

AOMORI -- A couple has been arrested after the male driver killed a pedestrian because he took his eyes off the road while the woman passenger fed him a chocolate from her mouth to his, Aomori District Public Prosecutors Office said.

Hiroyoshi Oyama, 47, a company employee from Aomori, was arrested for negligent driving resulting in the death of a 69-year-old male pedestrian.

An unnamed woman in her 20s who was in the car with Oyama at the time of the fatal crash was arrested for aggravated negligence resulting in death. It is extremely rare for vehicle passengers to face charges in connection with a road accident.

Both admit to the allegations facing them.

Prosecutors said the nature of the accident meant both the driver and passenger should face criminal charges.

"We decided they have a significant criminal responsibility to pay considering somebody died in this case," a prosecutor said.

Prosecutors said that while Oyama and the woman were driving through Noheji, Aomori Prefecture, on the afternoon of Dec. 28 last year, the company employee took his eyes off the road as the woman mouth-fed him a chocolate and he slammed his car into the old man, killing him.

Immediately after the crash, Oyama told investigators the woman was only a passerby and tried to avoid getting her involved. Police sent documents to prosecutors accusing Oyama of negligent driving resulting in death on April 4. Prosecutors arrested Oyama on April 7 and the woman two days later.

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