>>1872603A blind woman fell into the gap between two connected trains and was killed about 10 years ago.
In typical Japanese overcautious fashion, JR West subsequently spent boatloads of money instealling these wings on most of their trains.
Glad that it's now safer, but surely there are better ways of spending hundreds of millions of yen to save 1 or 2 deahts every few decades.
In other news, Osaka metro will get their FIRST EVER branch line from Morinomiya to their train depot about 1km north. The station will be at the ground level and open very soon in 2025, in line with the opening of a new university campus in that area.
https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20221126-morinomiya/ 