CCTV network news: 19 midday, japanese Tokyo produces traffic accident one case, cause two people death, 8 people to get hurt -- and cause trouble driver, it is an old person of 87 years old of advanced age! This causes Japanese society to involve the attention of the traffic accident that seize a life to senile driver again.
This traffic accident happening is in Tokyo urban district.
Local time midday 12:25, cause trouble driver of 87 years old drives support of the people of way of much name of successional dash against cyclist, return dash against a dumpcart -- in the person that hurt, a girl of 3 years old and her mom is not treated after be sent toward the hospital die.
Police is investigating traffic accident matter, eyewitness says, cause trouble car entered red light.
Problem of the person that advanced age drives lets Japan very headache
Be in Japan, hold driver's license restricts; without the age and, in many town and a rural area, public traffic is underdeveloped, people goes to be able to drive only all right -- this is in aged the Japan with later and later rate, caused hidden trouble to road transportation safety.
The data of Japanese police hall shows, in recent years, number of death of Japanese traffic accident declines continuously, but the hair of traffic accident frequency that senile driver causes: 2016, japan exceeds 1/4 " the traffic accident that seize a life " age of cause trouble driver exceeds 65 years old of;2017 year, in the traffic accident of Japanese whole nation, amount to 55% concern with senile driver -- and the reason of most accident, it is a driver " step on accelerator when brake by accident, the control that perhaps loses pair of steering wheel " .
Last year in May, city of Qi of cogongrass of plain county of Japanese god Nai, red light is entered to bump into many pedestrian when a chauffeuse of 90 years old drives, bring about die 3 injuries.
Japanese police hall ever released a report to say last year, up to by last year March, holder of more than 2.105 million driver's licenses accepts cognitive function test, exceed doubt of 57 thousand old people to be like among them suffer from cognitive obstacle.
