From Barrier Free Japan
November 10 2023
HYOGO – According to the police and fire department, a wheelchair and an express train collided at Hanshin Electric Railway’s Mukogawa Station around 5:50PM p.m. on November 7th 2023.
The wheelchair caught fire during the accident, and the fire may have started from the battery. The fire was extinguished about 40 minutes later, but the man in the wheelchair was injured and taken to the hospital.
September 16th 2018
KOBE – A 73-year-old man using an electric wheelchair at a railroad crossing of the Hankyu Kobe Line in Kobe City died on the 16th evening as a train hit him, police said that he was not able to cross the railroad crossing.
Hirokazu Mukai (73) who lived near the railway crossing of the Hankyu Kobe line of Naka-dori Nada ward, Kobe City, was hit by a regular train around 7:15 pm on the September 16th 2023.
Mr. Mukai was brought to the hospital, but death was confirmed soon after.
Episode Notes: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2023/11/07/kansai-railway-line-suspended-due-to-collision-with-wheelchair-user/
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