A car driven by the former head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office special investigation squad struck and killed a pedestrian in Minato Ward on Sunday, police said.
Tatsuhiro Ishikawa, 78, was at the wheel when his car plowed through a guard rail and mowed down a pedestrian before coming to a halt in a hardware store in the Tokyo’s Shirokane district at around 7:20 a.m., authorities said.
The victim, Takayuki Horiuchi, a 37-year-old self-employed man from Adachi Ward, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Ishikawa, a resident of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, was also hospitalized with a fractured right leg.
The police suspect he lost control of the vehicle.
