With Sunday having marked seven years since a woman and her daughter were killed by the driver of a runaway car in Tokyo¡¯s bustling Ikebukuro district, the officer who led the police investigation at the time is urging people to remember the lessons learned from the incident.
¡°We should not let this accident fade away,¡± said Akira Takahashi, 58, now head of the Traffic Investigation Division at Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
Shortly after noon on April 19, 2019, Takahashi rushed to Ikebukuro from the MPD¡¯s headquarters after receiving a report that a car had hit multiple people. He described the scene as gruesome and unlike anything he had experienced before, with a garbage truck on its side and a bicycle split in half. The driver of the car was an 87-year-old man.
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