An 89-year-old woman with impaired vision died Monday when she was hit by a train after falling from a platform and onto tracks in Osaka, police said.

The incident happened around 9:20 a.m. when the woman fell while walking along a platform at Kami-Shinjo Station, police in the western Japan city said, adding the woman was carrying a certificate indicating her visual impairment.

According to eyewitnesses and surveillance camera footage, the woman fell after gradually veering toward the tracks as she walked. She had just alighted from a train operated by Hankyu Corp. on the Kyoto Line.

Although she initially managed to scramble under the platform after falling, she was hit by the train while trying to retrieve an umbrella using a stick, the police said.

The driver of the out-of-service train applied the brakes but was unable to stop in time, the police added. The woman was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital.

The station has tactile paving on its 5-meter-wide platforms to assist vision impaired passengers, the railway operator said, but there was no station staff on duty at the time of the accident.

In order to prevent similar accidents, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and railway operators have been implementing safety measures such as installing platform doors, but Kami-Shinjo Station is not equipped with them.

It is not the first such accident to occur at a station without platform doors in Japan in 2017.

In January, a 63-year-old visually impaired man, who was accompanied by a guide dog, died after being hit by a train when he fell from a platform in Saitama Prefecture. In October, another visually impaired man was struck and killed after falling off a platform at Osaka's Tonoki Station, which also did not have platform doors.