Man in wheelchair dies after being hit by train on crossing

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

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.

Who would attempt to cross the tracks in a wheelchair? Maddness.

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.

Absolutely awful.

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.

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

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Police said the train driver saw the man and applied the emergency brake but couldn’t stop the train in time.

Horrible both for the guy who got killed and the driver. He must have nightmares about this forever.

Who would attempt to cross the tracks in a wheelchair? Maddness.

Because living life in Japan requires crossing train tracks.

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

You are just speculating, you can not possible know that, without seeing the location, the wheelchair, and the person.