From the 19th to the 20th, interviews with fire departments and others revealed that at least 14 accidents that were believed to be caused by snow occurred in Niigata Prefecture.
Among them, in Ojiya City, on the afternoon of the 19th, a 76-year-old man was reported to have collapsed while shoveling snow around his home, and was transported to a hospital in the city in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest, but later died.
In addition, in Kashiwazaki City, a person caught in a traffic jam on a national highway reported that he had a headache.
In Ojiya City, from the 19th to the morning of the 20th, a 4-year-old girl and a 67-year-old woman who were caught in a traffic jam and were in the car complained of poor physical condition and were transported to a hospital in the city, but there was no life-threatening condition. is.
Furthermore, in Sado City, on the afternoon of the 19th, a woman in her 80s and a man in her 50s who had been using a generator at a house that had lost power were taken to a hospital with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, but they were conscious at the time of transportation. about it.