Boys are hit and run by bicycles one after another, hit and run, Yokohama City, November 11, 15:35

Last month, it was discovered that a boy in the third grade of elementary school on the sidewalk in Yokohama City was hit by two bicycles one after another and suffered a serious injury that broke his arm.

Both bicycles have run away from the scene, and police are investigating their whereabouts on suspicion of hit-and-run.

On the 26th of last month, on the sidewalk in Minami-ku, Yokohama, an 8-year-old boy in the third grade of elementary school who lived near the school was hit by a bicycle and fell, and was also hit by a subsequent bicycle. is.

The boy was seriously injured by breaking his right arm because he had just gone down the stairs of the pedestrian bridge and went out to the sidewalk.



According to the police, the first bicycle was a woman in her 30s to 40s, the second was a man in her 30s, and both of them ran away from the scene.



Also, according to the boys who were damaged, the man on the second bicycle stopped at the scene and asked, "Are you okay?" And then ran away.



Police are investigating the whereabouts on suspicion of hit-and-run.

Mother of a seriously injured boy "Raise awareness of safety"

A mother of a boy who was seriously injured in an accident told NHK that "a bicycle is the same as a car and may kill people, so I want each person to raise their awareness of safety."



According to the mother, the site was a route that boys usually go to and from school, and it was still on the way to school at that time.



Immediately after going down the stairs of the pedestrian bridge and going out to the sidewalk, he was hit by a bicycle running from the right side, fell and hit his head, and then when he got up, he was hit by a second bicycle. is.



Boys have broken their right arm and are forced to have inconvenience in their daily lives, and their mother said, "Sometimes I feel stressed and complain of headaches. This time I only had a broken bone, but in the unlikely event that something went wrong. I think it might have been life-threatening. "



Regarding the fact that both bicycles ran away from the scene, "I wonder why they didn't help me on the spot, and I was shocked that the child ran away even though he was lying down." I'm talking to you.



On top of that, "Bicycles are the same as cars and can kill people, so I think you have to be really careful. Since there is no need for a license and elderly and small children can ride freely, each person who rides I want you to raise your awareness of safety. "

Non-life insurance company “Increased frequency of bicycle use” due to the spread of new corona infection

As a result of conducting an online questionnaire survey of bicycle users nationwide in September, "au non-life insurance company", which sells insurance on the Internet, found that about 24% of the 1,000 respondents were after the spread of the new coronavirus infection. They answered that the frequency of bicycle use "increased" or "slightly increased".



Many of the reasons for this were "solving lack of exercise by refraining from going out" and "because I think the risk of infection is lower than other means of transportation".



Also, in a survey of people who commute by bicycle in Tokyo in June, about 23% of the 500 respondents answered that they started commuting by bicycle after the spread of the infection. It seems that the number of bicycles running in the city is increasing due to the influence.



While the number of traffic accidents continues to decline, the proportion of bicycle-related accidents has been increasing year by year since four years ago, and according to the National Police Agency statistics, last year it accounted for more than 20% of all traffic accidents, and the police said that bicycle safety I am calling for driving.