Marine
01-30-2003, 5:12am
GIFU -- A supermarket employee drowned after he accidentally drove his car into a river while talking on his mobile phone, police said Monday.
Officers from the Kaizu Police Station said that Hideki Yabuno was apparently holding his mobile phone as he talked, causing him to lose control of the vehicle and end up in the Oe River in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, at about 6 p.m. Sunday evening.
Yabuno told his female friend on the other end of the phone, "I have fallen into a river," before the phne cut out. The woman immediately alerted police, leading officers to launch a search of the river.
More than 12 hours later, they found Yabuno, 27, dead inside his car at the bottom of a 2-meter-deep section of the river Monday morning.
The woman said Yabuno called her again after falling into the river.
"I can't open the window. Help me!" she quoted the supermarket employee as saying. She didn't hear from him again.
Yabuno was delivering groceries to a customer at the time of the accident. (Mainichi Shimbun, Jan. 27, 2003)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030127p2a00m0fp033000c.html
Officers from the Kaizu Police Station said that Hideki Yabuno was apparently holding his mobile phone as he talked, causing him to lose control of the vehicle and end up in the Oe River in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, at about 6 p.m. Sunday evening.
Yabuno told his female friend on the other end of the phone, "I have fallen into a river," before the phne cut out. The woman immediately alerted police, leading officers to launch a search of the river.
More than 12 hours later, they found Yabuno, 27, dead inside his car at the bottom of a 2-meter-deep section of the river Monday morning.
The woman said Yabuno called her again after falling into the river.
"I can't open the window. Help me!" she quoted the supermarket employee as saying. She didn't hear from him again.
Yabuno was delivering groceries to a customer at the time of the accident. (Mainichi Shimbun, Jan. 27, 2003)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030127p2a00m0fp033000c.html