On the evening of the 3rd, a light passenger car fell into the sea at a port in Shiraoi-cho, Hokkaido, killing two people, a 78-year-old husband and an 84-year-old wife.
There is witness information that the car was turned back at the scene, and police are investigating in detail, suspecting that the driver may have accidentally fallen.
At around 4:40 pm on the 3rd, at Shiraoi Port in Shiraoi Town, a nearby person reported to the police that the car had fallen into the sea.
When I searched in the sea, a light passenger car was sunk on the seabed, and two couples, Eiji Fukumoto (78) and Setsuko (84), from Kojohama, Shiraoi Town, were found inside the car and were taken to the hospital but died. Did.
In addition to the fishing equipment placed near the site, there is witness information that the car was turned back many times just before it fell.
Police are investigating the possibility that they may have accidentally fallen into the sea when they came to fishing and tried to park.