A woman died on a three-dimensional parking lot. Husband in his 70s sent documents to the Metropolitan Police Department November 4, 0:01
In May, a woman in her 70s died in a mechanical multi-storey car park in a condominium in Tokyo, sandwiched between a car park and an aisle.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to send documents to a husband in his 70s on the suspicion of serious negligence and death on the 4th, saying that pressing the operation button of the parking lot even though the woman was in the car led to an accident.
In May, a 72-year-old woman who was a resident at the time was found lying down in a mechanical multi-storey car park in a condominium in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, and died at the hospital where she was transported.
When the Metropolitan Police Department checked the video of the security camera on the premises, it was found that the 71-year-old husband who got out of the car earlier pressed the operation button of the parking lot immediately after the woman put the car in the parking lot. ..
When you press the button, the table on which the car is placed starts to move directly below and is stored underground, and according to investigators, the woman has a head between the table and the aisle that started moving when trying to get out of the car. It means that it was sandwiched.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to send documents to her husband on the suspicion of being fatally fatal due to gross negligence on the 4th, saying that pressing the operation button without confirming even though the woman was in the car led to an accident.
At that time, her husband was drunk and told the investigation that he "did not remember."
A series of fatal accidents in a multi-storey car park
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, there have been at least 43 accidents in mechanical multi-storey car parks nationwide since 2007, killing 13 people, including children.
Eight of them died because the machine was activated while they were in the parking lot like this accident.
In the multi-storey car park of an apartment in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, a 4-year-old boy died in 2012 when he was caught between a car platform and a wall.
In many cases, pressing an operation button without the user noticing that there was a person inside led to an accident.
In response to this situation, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism formulated new guidelines in 2014 and urged manufacturers and others to strengthen measures to prevent accidents, such as the introduction of safety devices.
According to the industry group "Multi-storey car park industry association", in the latest multi-storey car park, sensors detect the movement of people, and the machine does not operate even if you press a button while you are inside.
On the other hand, since many parking lots have not yet taken measures, groups are calling attention to users by publishing a video summarizing the operation procedure on their website.