Tobu-Tojo Line Home Fall Accident There is a possibility that a visually impaired person may accidentally fall.

Last month, the accident in which a man fell and died at the platform of a station on the Tobu-Tojo Line in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, revealed that a visually impaired person may have accidentally fallen, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is considering measures to prevent recurrence. , I decided to investigate the situation at that time in detail.

A man in his 60s in Itabashi Ward fell from his platform at Shimo-Akatsuka Station on the Tobu Tojo Line in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, after 9 am on the 28th of last month, and was hit by a running train and died.

There was no platform door on the platform to prevent it from falling.

According to people familiar with the matter, the man was visually impaired with low vision and recently complained of anxiety due to poor vision.

On this day, the man was planning to get off the train and change to a car at Shimo-Akatsuka Station to go to a home-visit massage for work.

According to Tobu Railway, at that time, it was not known that the man was visually impaired, and from interviews with the driver who saw the fall, he reported to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism that he was "presumed to commit suicide" in the evening of the accident. It was.

After that, when the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism received an inquiry from a group of visually impaired people and proceeded with confirmation, the Metropolitan Police Department that investigated said that it was not clear whether it was a suicide or an accident.

For this reason, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has decided to investigate the situation at that time in order to consider measures to prevent recurrence, considering that a visually impaired man may have accidentally fallen.

Itabashi Ward Welfare Association for the Visually Impaired "I would like to ask you to prevent recurrence"

Munemasa Sasaki, Chairman of the Itabashi Ward Welfare Association for the Visually Impaired, said, "Looking at the situation at the site, I think that the Braille block of the platform was a complicated platform and I might have walked in the wrong direction. I would like to ask you to install platform doors, have station staff at the platform watch over and talk to you, and prevent recurrence so that accidents do not occur. "