Ex-Tokyo Disability Facility Worker Referred to Prosecutors Over Railroad Crossing Death

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on the 10th referred a 46-year-old former employee of the disability support facility Takinogawa Gakuen Adult Division to prosecutors on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death, over an incident last March in which he allegedly looked away from a man with an intellectual disability (48 at the time), leading to the man being struck and killed by a train at a railroad crossing in Kunitachi, Tokyo, investigative sources said. Episode notes: ‘Ex-Tokyo Disability Facility Worker Referred Over Railroad Crossing Death’: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2026/03/11/ex-tokyo-disability-facility-worker-referred-over-railroad-crossing-death/