Japanese Shinkansen crash occurred and the driver heard a strange noise but did not report it
[Global network reporter Wang Huan] Japan's Minister of Land and transport Ishii Keichi revealed at a press conference on June 15 that the Japanese Shinkansen personal accident occurred on the 14th, the driver did not report to the operation command personnel (equivalent to dispatchers) after hearing an abnormal sound. Ishii said: "Is the judgment appropriate? Why was it not reported? I have given the West Japan Railway Company (JR West Japan) instructions to verify it, "he said. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that JR West's attitude to safety measures may be questioned again after a chassis crack problem occurred at the end of 2017.
JR West Japan resumed the Sanyo Shinkansen service, which was suspended due to the accident, from the starting shift on the 15th. In the early morning of the same day, the train stopped at Shin-Shimonoseki station was moved to Hakata Complex (Nakagawa town, Fukuoka Prefecture), and the damaged head cover part of the train will be repaired. The prefectural police and others will investigate the situation and search for the remains of the deceased.
The accident happened around 2 PM on the 14th. "Hope 176" (about 200 passengers) on the Shinkansen Hakata bound for Tokyo hit a person in the Hakata to Ogura section. JR West also said that the "Hope 176" stopped at Shin-Kasumigaseki station in Shimonoseki City and conducted an emergency inspection, and found a human body part from the damaged front of the train. The driver was said to have noticed an unusual noise, but continued running because he thought the noise was the same based on his previous experience with small animals.
In order to cooperate with the Fukuoka Prefecture police to locate the accident site and other work, the Sanyo Shinkansen 14 Hakata to Hiroshima section of the two-way suspension. In addition, the Tokaido Shinkansen and Kyushu Shinkansen also suffered delays and other impacts.
JR West Japan revealed that a total of 76 trains were suspended and 63 trains were delayed by up to about 4 hours and 20 minutes, affecting about 41,500 trips. JR Kyushu responded by deploying temporary trains and other measures. Rest trains were prepared at Hakata and Hiroshima stations to serve about 3,250 people.
Takayoshi Nakao, a director of a Kumamoto group who was stranded at Hiroshima station on his way back from work, spent the night on a blue plastic sheet laid in the station. "About 300 people were lying down and the site was crowded with refunds," Nakao said wearingly. "I couldn't sleep at all."