Around 3:00 pm on the 7th, a car crashed into a ticket shop in Namba, a downtown area of Osaka, and three people were seriously injured.
Around 3:00 pm on the 7th, a light passenger car rushed into a ticket shop in the downtown area of Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka.
According to police, three women in their twenties and fifties were injured and taken to the hospital in the accident, one of whom was seriously injured with a broken right leg.
The car was driven by a 32-year-old self-employed man, whose mother in the passenger seat said his son had a chronic illness.
NHK’s fixed camera installed nearby shows the car suddenly starting and being shaken off following the mother got off from the passenger seat of the car that was stopped just before the accident and went around to the driver’s seat side. I did.
According to police, of the three injured, the one who was seriously injured was the ticket shop customer, and the other two were the shop employee and mother, both of whom were slightly injured.
Police are investigating the details of the accident.
The site is located in the center of Minami, Osaka, near Namba Station on the Osaka Metro, where department stores and large electronics retail stores are lined up, and it is usually a busy place.
[In the video of a fixed camera].
The image of the fixed camera installed by NHK showed the situation that seems to be just before the accident.
In the video, you can see that the silver car that seems to have caused the accident is waiting for the red light at the intersection in front of Nankai Namba Station around 3:00 pm on the 7th.
After that, the traffic light turns blue and the car in front moves, but the silver car does not depart.
Then, the woman who was in the passenger seat of the car wraps around from the outside toward the driver’s seat.
However, the car starts suddenly and the woman collapses inside the intersection.
The car continued to run with the door on the driver’s side not closed, and ran to the right side of the screen.
Immediately following that, you will hear the sound of colliding with something.
It seems that he rushed into the ticket shop.