On the 25th of this month, a visually impaired woman died in contact with a train at a railroad crossing in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture. Therefore, police are investigating that the woman had an accident because she could not find her position.
There are no Braille blocks at railroad crossings, and groups of visually impaired people are planning to ask the government to take measures.
On the 25th of this month, Yoko Takagaki (50), who lives nearby, died in contact with a train at a railroad crossing on the Kintetsu Kashihara Line in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture.
Mr. Takagaki was blind and tried to cross the railroad crossing with her white stick in his hand at that time, but the police thought that she had an accident because she could not find her position in the railroad crossing. Checking it up.
The security camera image obtained by NHK showed Mr. Takagaki stopping for a while in front of the barrier that came down just before crossing the railroad crossing, and then returning to the vicinity of the center of the railroad crossing.
There is no Braille block in the railroad crossing that can be used as a guide for visually impaired people to walk, and she thinks that Mr. Takagaki is outside the railroad crossing, and she may have approached the train.
Toshihiro Tatsumi, chairman of the visually impaired group in Nara Prefecture, who visited the site, said, "It is difficult for visually impaired people to grasp the standing position without Braille blocks. I want to ask for it. "