[HIGHLIGHTS] Man in electric wheelchair dies at railroad crossing Japan Transport Safety Board conducts field survey Kyoto Maizuru

On the 10th, at the railway crossing of the Kyoto Tango Railway in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture, a man in his 80s in an electric wheelchair with a handle was hit by a train and died. The scene is a level crossing called "Class 4 level crossing" with no barriers or alarms, and police are investigating the possibility that Mr.

Hayashi may have been hit when he tried to cross the crossing. The National Transport Safety Board of Japan dispatched an investigator to the site on the 11th and began investigating the cause of the accident.