A 71-year-old suspect who was arrested for an accident in which two elderly women were killed when a passenger car driving in the wrong direction on a national highway crashed into the outer wall of a hospital in Ikuno Ward, Osaka on the 1st, said, I was fainted," he said.
Furthermore, there was no movement to avoid the collision, so the police are investigating in detail assuming that there is a possibility that consciousness disorder has occurred.
Around 3:00 pm on the 1st, a passenger car driving in the wrong direction on a national highway in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, crashed into the outer wall of a hospital and was walking on the sidewalk. Kuniko Kuchiike (75) died.
The police arrested Masaki Wu (71), who was driving the car in Hirano Ward, Osaka, on the spot on suspicion of causing death by negligent driving.
According to the police, in response to the investigation, he said, ``I sneezed in front of the scene and felt faint for a moment, and then I don't know how the accident happened.''
According to the investigation so far, the car ran in the opposite direction from the vicinity of the intersection at least 60 meters before, and there were no brake marks on the road surface during this time. It means that there was no movement to avoid collision.
For this reason, the police are investigating the possibility that the suspect may have had a disturbance of consciousness.