Ikebukuro runaway accident An old driver from the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry to send documents to a document inspection on November 9 at 17:02
In April, the car of an elderly driver ran out of control in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and two people died and 10 people were injured. The policy is to send documents for suspected wounds.
In April, in Tokyo Ikebukuro, a passenger car went out of control and hit pedestrians one after another. Mana Matsunaga (31) and the eldest daughter, Reiko-chan (3), who were riding bicycles, died and 10 people were seriously injured. Owed.
Kozo Iizuka, a former official of the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry, who was driving a passenger car (88), stated at the beginning of the investigation by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department that "the brakes did not work".
According to the investigator, the subsequent investigation revealed that there was no problem with the car and that the driver had stepped on the accelerator without applying the brakes after the first contact accident from the record of the drive recorder.
For this reason, the Metropolitan Police Department assumed that the accident caused by the mistake of stepping on the brakes and accelerators, followed the series of runaways in which 12 people were killed and injured as four consecutive accidents. The policy is to send documents again next week for suspected wounds.
Former staff member Iizuka stated that he may have panicked and accidentally stepped on the brake and accelerator.