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Call for tactile paving: Llandudno guide dog owner had to get down on the floor and use hands
Chris Copeman, of Llandudno, with guide dog Rigsby GUIDE Dogs Cymru is calling on Network Rail to fit tactile paving at all railway stations in Wales to warn vision-impaired passengers that they are nearing the platform edge. The call follows a report into the death of Cleveland Gervais, a man with sight loss who fell from the platform and was hit by a train at Eden Park station in London in February 2020. The report, by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, concluded that the absence of tactile paving at the platform edge could have been a factor in his death.
ALL railway stations in Wales should have tactile paving to warn vision-impaired passengers they are nearing the edge of the platform. This is the call from Guide Dogs Cymru following a report into the death of a man with sight loss in London last year. A report was released on February 19 into the death of Cleveland Gervais who fell from the platform at Eden Park Station and was hit by a train in 2020. The report into the incident was compiled by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, who found that the absence of tactile paving at the platform edge could have been a factor in his death.
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