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(From The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri)

Sleeping train driver drank the night before

Yomiuri

The man who fell asleep while operating a Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train on Wednesday had been drinking the previous night, police said Thursday.

Okayama prefectural police quoted the driver, 33, as saying, "After drinking with my colleagues in Hiroshima on Tuesday, I went home and went to bed at around 1 a.m. on Wednesday. I woke up at about 11:30 a.m. and then went to work." ...

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