A 69-year-old man in a wheelchair died after he was hit by a train while on a crossing in Higashi-Osaka on Thursday.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 4 p.m. on the Kintetsu Nara Line, Fuji TV reported. Police said the crossing gate was down at the time and believe the man’s wheelchair got stuck on the tracks.
The man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. No passengers on the train were hurt.
Police said the train driver saw the man and applied the emergency brake but couldn’t stop the train in time.
© Japan Today
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TrafficCone
Too sad to comprehend.
perhaps fatter tires are needed?
next time I see someone at a train crossing in a wheelchair I’m gonna make sure they make it across
John-San
If the wheels did get stuck. You better close down every railway crossing in the Japan. Because JR have not I assume this Police report is false.
Tora
Who would attempt to cross the tracks in a wheelchair? Maddness.
Hiro
The question is if it was intentional or not. Is not the first time someone decide to go this way. Otherwise he should have at least ask for assistance before crossing the thing with a wheelchair.
Luddite
Absolutely awful.
Sven Asai
What else than a suicide? If one has the very strong arm power to move on in public life in a wheelchair, even at the age of 69, he also can still get out off it and crouch away from the danger zone. At least you know after so many time how the wheelchair reacts at such crossings or what ways you can afford to challenge and so on. Otherwise , incapable of such, he would have been in a senior or disabled persons’ residence and they would drive him around from time to time in a car or he would have called a taxi etc.
Jesse Wilson
Firstit wasn't at a station where there is a lot of people. Second it is kind of in the countryside. It happened near my work. Near Hyotanyama station.
Osaka
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RgazeFYHxZcnCJzTA
Zaphod
Horrible both for the guy who got killed and the driver. He must have nightmares about this forever.
Ah_so
Because living life in Japan requires crossing train tracks.
WilliB
Sven Asai
You are just speculating, you can not possible know that, without seeing the location, the wheelchair, and the person.