“Even if you hear the sound of a railroad crossing, sometimes you don’t know whether you’re inside or outside the crossing.”
A yr in the past in Mishima City, Shizuoka Prefecture, a visually impaired man was hit and killed by a prepare at a railroad crossing. At that point, it’s believed that the person might not have been conscious that he was standing in a harmful place.
The key to stopping accidents is putting in Braille blocks to information visually impaired individuals safely. Two years after the person’s accident, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has begun an experiment to create requirements for putting in steering indicators equivalent to Braille blocks.