Measures against heavy rain Vehicle escape hammer Triple sales to prepare the country Call for September 4 17:39
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is calling for a hammer inside the car to break through the window and escape when the car is trapped in water due to heavy rain such as a typhoon, and sales at major automobile goods stores nearly triple There is a movement to buy in preparation for flood damage.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has been driving cars such as preparing a hammer to break the windows in case of the worst case, because typhoon No. 19 last year and the heavy rain in July caused the cars to get stuck in water. We are calling for water damage countermeasures when doing.
Under these circumstances, at a major automobile supplies store in Tokyo's Koto Ward, four types of escape hammers were being sold at disaster prevention-related corners, and visitors were able to confirm how to use the products by hand.
The escape hammer is characterized by a pointed structure that concentrates the force when breaking the window.Since the middle of last month when the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism called for this major automobile goods store, sales have been last year. It means that it is almost tripled.
A self-employed man in his 40s who was visiting the store said, "I heard that the door suddenly doesn't open when the car hits the water, so I'd rather have a hammer like this."
Mr. Tomiharu Watanabe, who is in charge of the sales floor, said, “There are many large typhoons and there is a possibility that something that I thought was impossible could happen. It was.