On June 21, at the Tohoku Expressway Takizawa Toll Gate, it was announced that an illegal passer-by who had repeatedly forced through without paying a toll was arrested by the Iwate Prefectural Police on the charge of violating the Road Maintenance Special Measures Act. did.

This is the first time that ITC has been arrested in Iwate Prefecture due to an ETC lane breaking through.

The Road Maintenance Special Measures Law was amended in accordance with the privatization of road related 4 public corporations on October 1, 2005, and the toll booth was breached in violation of the traffic method (authorized by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) established by the Expressway company. Criminal penalties will be imposed on drivers of cars and other vehicles that pass by.

East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. has been working on "countermeasures against illegal traffic" for a long time, but since the suspect was repeatedly breaking through at the toll booth, Iwate Prefectural Police Headquarters Expressway Report to the Traffic Police Corps However, this triggered the arrest this time.

Until now, we have been working with a strong stance of “don't allow unauthorized traffic” by using unauthorized traffic surveillance cameras, etc. so as not to damage customers' trust in the toll road business. We believe that the arrest of a suspect who has committed illegal traffic will ensure fairness in toll charges and prevent unauthorized traffic.

In the future, we will continue to take a resolute attitude against unauthorized traffic such as this case and actively cooperate with police investigations to tackle unauthorized traffic.

In addition, the suspect in this case will be charged a surcharge (twice the amount exempted) to the illegally exempted toll fee, and will be charged three times the illegally exempted toll fee.