Goal fallen child death Bereaved family sues city for compensation Fukuoka Okawa November 13, 17:42
Ototoshi, a handball goal fell in an elementary school in Okawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and the bereaved family filed an appeal for compensation to Okawa City for the accident that the child was laid down and died, and the school neglected safety management. .
Ototoshi In January, Harusho Umezaki, a 4th grade elementary school student who was hanging on a handball goal during a physical education class at Kawaguchi Elementary School in Okawa City, jumped to the ground and fell to the ground. Died.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has notified schools all over the country to fix the goal as a safety measure for equipment at school, but according to the Okawa City Board of Education, the goal was fixed in the event of an accident. The safety check was not carried out two months before the accident.
Harusho's parents said that the school side had not fixed the goal and did not check in advance, and that the city did not respond appropriately, such as not confirming the intention of the bereaved when the city conducted an investigation after the accident. Against the Yanagikawa branch of Fukuoka District Court.
Regarding this accident, the police have sent six documents including teachers and school principals who were in charge of classes on the suspicion of being negligently fatal.
Father "Don't accident again"
Harusho's parents filed a trial on the day of their death.
Father Takafumi Umezaki (40) held a conference with a lawyer,
“My son is a cheerful and kind boy, and I loved going to school anyway. It ’s almost 3 years, but it ’s still an emotion that I ca n’t express in words.”
For the reason for initiating the trial,
“I really wanted my son to face the accident so that the children would never be sacrificed again in a similar accident,” he explained.
About investigation that Okawa-shi performed after accident,
"I didn't confirm the opinions of the bereaved, the investigation committee felt that it was open but only a formal one, and the report wasn't even convinced. I was n’t able to wipe out my anxiety, ”he said.
Lastly, “Our family is not jealous of someone. Really, I want my children to look at them and make their society better so that they will never have an accident again.” I appealed.
Superintendent of education "I can't comment but make sure to prevent recurrence"
Tetsuya Koki of the Okawa City Board of Education says, “I can't comment at this time because I haven't seen any complaints, but I want to make sure that accidents that have lost their precious lives are not weathered. It is.
Accidents where the goal falls
Accidents of falling handball and soccer goals at school are continuing throughout the country.
According to research by Ryo Uchida, an associate professor at Nagoya University, there were at least 19 serious accidents caused by soccer and handball goals that occurred at school in 16 years since 2002, 3 people were killed and 16 people were injured. It means that you did.
Most of the cases fell on the frame of the goal, and there were some cases that fell due to the strong wind.