Mother raps Fukui police for ignoring rescue calls www3.nhk.or.jp

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 2 months ago

Police in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, have acknowledged that they failed to respond to repeated calls by a mother to rescue her son, whose car was stuck in deep snow.

The 19-year-old was found dead inside the vehicle in Sakai City on February 7th, when the area received record snowfall. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The man had made an emergency call that morning to report that his car had become immobile. Police said they told him to wait for snow removal workers to arrive. But they did not pass on his information to prefectural authorities who were coordinating removal crews.