Fukuoka cops: Elderly taxi
driver slams into hospital;
2 dead, several injured
By Roland Shichijo
on December 4, 2016
Cabbie told cops car ‘wouldn’t stop after
hitting the brakes’
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Fukuoka cops: Elderly taxi
driver slams into hospital;
2 dead, several injured
By Roland Shichijo
on December 4, 2016
Cabbie told cops car ‘wouldn’t stop after
hitting the brakes’
An elderly taxi driver slammed into a hospital
in Fukuoka City, killing two persons and
injuring several others (TBS News)
FUKUOKA (TR) – An elderly male taxi driver slammed into the
reception area of a hospital in Fukuoka City, killing two people
and injuring several others, three of them are unconscious in
serious condition, police said on Saturday.
Police arrested Tatsuo Matsuoka, 64, on suspicion of negligent
driving resulting in injury after he drove through the windows of
Harasanshin Hospital into its reception area before slamming into
an interior wall at around 5 p.m. in Hakata Ward, NHK reports
(Dec. 3).
Police are rushing to confirm hospital reports of several people
with injuries.
Matsuoka was quoted by police as saying the car “wouldn’t stop
even after hitting the brakes, so I changed gears and tried to put
on the engine brakes, I wanted to slow down.”
A witness at the scene said they “saw the entire taxi smash
through the windows and into the hospital. There was a man
getting CPR before being carried away.”
‘I saw a woman’s head under the car’
A witness told TBS News the car “was going crazy fast. It was
horrible, I saw a woman’s head under the car.”
TBS News quoted another witness as saying they saw a “little girl
calling out ‘dad, dad’ and ‘my dad is dead.’ [The driver] was just
sitting there in silence, like he was dazed.”
Another witness said they “headed to the hospital after hearing a
loud sound, and that’s when I saw that a car had broken through
the windows and crashed into the hospital building itself.”
“There were overturned sofas and boots that came off people
strewn around the car,” the witness said. “Numerous people were
being carried into the hospital.”
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福岡で病院にタクシー突っ込む、３人死亡
３日夕方、福岡市博多区の病院にタクシーが突っ込み、はねられた男女３人が死亡したほか、７人がけがをしました。警察はタクシー運転手の６４歳の男を現行犯逮捕しました。
３日午後５時ごろ、福岡市博多区の「原三信病院」の１階にタクシーが突っ込みました。
警察によりますと、タクシーにはねられた花田盛幸さん（４４）、妻の美佐代さん（４４）、遠藤一行さん（５３）の３人が死亡しました。また、７人がけがをしていて、このうち女性１人が意識不明の重体です。
「ドーンと走っていった。それはすごいスピード。車の下に女の人の頭が見えた、恐ろしい」（事故の目撃者）
「女の子が『お父さん、お父さん』と言っていて、『お父さんが死んだ』って。（運転手は）何も言葉を発さず、放心状態だった」（近くにいた人）
警察はタクシーを運転していた個人タクシーの運転手・松岡龍生容疑者（６４）を現行犯逮捕しました。取り調べに対し、松岡容疑者は「ブレーキを踏んだが、止まらなかった」と供述しているということで、警察が当時の状況を詳しく調べています。（04日06:47）