This aerial photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows Osaka Prefectural Police officers inspecting the car that slammed into the Konomiya supermarket in Osakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2021. (Mainichi/Takao Kitamura)

       OSAKA -- A car driven by an 89-year-old man slammed into a supermarket in the Osaka Prefecture city of Osakasayama on Nov. 17, leaving one man dead and two women seriously injured.

       The local fire department received an emergency call at around 12:10 p.m. saying that a car had crashed into the wall of the Konomiya supermarket and hit passersby. Osaka Prefectural Police's Kuroyama Police Station arrested driver Takashi Yokoyama, a local resident, on the scene on suspicion of causing death or injury with a motor vehicle.

       Yokoyama was quoted as telling police, "I was waiting in the car with the trunk open to pick up my wife from shopping. I thought the car was parked, but it began to move slowly, and I hit the gas pedal instead of the brake by mistake."

       A vending machine knocked down by the car is seen in front of the Konomiya supermarket in Osakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2021. (Mainichi/Daiki Takikawa)

       Police believe that the suspect lost control of the car, and are investigating the details.

       (Japanese original by Shuntaro Sawa, Yukina Furukawa and Kohei Shimizu, Osaka City News Department)

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