"The Kobe District Court has ruled against the 40-year-old single mother of a 15-year-old boy after his bike struck an elderly woman while he was riding too fast down a hill. Judge Tomoko Tanaka ordered that the mother pay a total of 95 million yen because she “provided insufficient guidance to the child that may have prevented this accident.”
Source: Mother ordered to pay Y95 mil after bicycle-riding son collides with elderly woman
July 8th 2013
Japan Today