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Truck driver abandons body of suicide victim, claiming he thought it was a doll

May 20 (Japan Today) - At around 4:30 a.m. on May 14, a woman took her life by jumping off a pedestrian bridge in Tokyoâ€™s Adachi Ward. Upon impact with a truck driving beneath the bridge, the woman passed away immediately. However, the driver of the truck carried on for nearly 2 kilometers before noticing an unusual weight on the truckâ€™s loading tray.

Common sense dictates that in such a situation, one would pull off at the side of the road, investigate, and alert local authorities upon discovering the body as failure to report a deceased body is constituted as a crime.

Instead of taking this course of action, the truck driver proceeded to dump the womanâ€™s remains onto the side of the road. A taxi driver behind the truck, who is the caseâ€™s only eyewitness, called out to the truck driver, possibly wondering why he was stopped on the side of the road with a womanâ€™s body.

Rather than relaying what happened to the taxi driver and working to contact the police, the truck driver merely told the other man that the suicide victimâ€™s body was â€œa doll,â€ re-entered his truck, and drove away.

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