A driver of a Shinkansen bullet train left the cockpit to use the bathroom while the train was running at 150km/h (93mph) with some 160 passengers on board in central Japan, Central Japan Railway Co.

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A Japanese train driver faces possible punishment after he left the cockpit of a speeding bullet train for several minutes to go to the toilet. He had asked a conductor, who did not have a driver's ...