抄録
It is necessary to support walking visually handicapped persons from the two aspects of walking support systems and accident prevention. The present study identifies walking environment maintenance in the future as a basic source for accident prevention. Fatal accidents can be easily seen statistically but minor accidents by visually handicapped persons are rarely identified. It reports on the result of research about walking accidents that visually handicapped persons encounter in their daily lives. The number of walking accidents outdoors was about 42% of the total accidents in the past five years. Walking accidents indoors also increased.
