Around noon on the 12th, a truck ran in the opposite direction on the Tomei Expressway in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, and the police are listening to the circumstances from an elderly driver.

A truck stopped in the opposite direction of travel on the shoulder of a highway. Police officers are responding. Around 11:50 a.m., on the Tomei Expressway in Toyokawa City, there was a call to 110 saying, “There is a car stopped in the overtaking lane, but it is going in the wrong direction.” NEXCO Central Japan guided it to the shoulder.

According to the police, the driver was a man in his late 70s who runs a landscape gardening business in Chiba Prefecture, and said he was on the way back following loading wood in Kagoshima Prefecture.

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[Watch video]A truck is “reversing” on the Tomei Expressway A man in his 70s asks the police regarding the situation and calls 110 for a car stopped in the overtaking lane