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A DRIVER WHO WAS allegedly playing Pokémon Go when he hit and killed a woman in Japan has been arrested, police said Wednesday.
Media said that Tuesday’s incident marked Japan’s first fatal vehicle accident involving the popular gaming app.
Keiji Gooh, a 39-year-old farmer, allegedly struck two women on Tuesday evening on a road in Tokushima city, western Japan, as he played the app while driving, a police spokesman said.
One of the women, aged 72, died while the other, 60, was seriously injured, the spokesman said.
Jiji Press said it was the nation’s first fatal accident involving a driver playing Pokémon Go while at the wheel.
Jiji also said there have been nearly 80 accidents in Japan involving modes of transportation including cars and bicycles since the app was introduced into Japan last month.
Authorities worldwide have issued a slew of warnings since the hugely popular smartphone app was launched in July.
It has already been blamed for a wave of crimes, traffic violations and complaints in cities around the globe.
The free app uses satellite locations, graphics and camera capabilities to overlay cartoon monsters on real-world settings, challenging players to capture and train the creatures for battles.
In a recent update, the makers Niantic Labs added a feature that would prevent you from playing if you travelled faster than walking or running speed. A pop-up would appear advising players not to play while driving, but you can remove it by saying you’re a passenger.
Pokémon has been popular in Japan since first being launched as software in 1996 for Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy console.
It expanded into other media, most notably a wildly popular TV animation show and its popularity has never waned.
Pokémon Go quickly became a global sensation when it launched, its popularity causing servers to go down regularly as more players tried to connect to it. While it continues to be popular, enthusiasm for the app is beginning to wane.
© – AFP, 2016 with additional reporting from Quinton O’Reilly
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People need better sense than this.
Pokemon Go is the epitome of the world of douchebags we have created. Zombie’s walking or driving around, not looking where they are going, texting, playing games, etc.
It can surely wait till you get where you are going.
When will people learn. Its just a pity 2 innocent people were killed by this braindead moron.
Pokemon go didn’t kill these people. An idiotic person driving did. How many people are killed daily by someone using their phone for texting, on the phone, checking the phone for something. Ridiculous headline. Will we see one evertime some one is killed by a driver on their phone. Walk down any Street before Pokemon go and people had their nose stuck in their face anyway.
This is some lazy clickbait… There’s 30 million active Pokémon Go users – there’s 30 million people in Peru – the odds that some of them were involved in a car accident involving a phone this week alone is pretty high, which makes this headline a desperate search for clicks.
Pokémon Go doesn’t kill people, crappy drivers on their phones kill people.
“which makes this headline a desperate search for clicks.”
And yet you clicked.
That probably sounded like a good troll comment in your head… Off you go now
This is essentially what Ciaran did here:
“All you sheep are so stupid – you’re being advertised to and don’t even realise”
*buys product in question*
This is not a ‘Pokemon Go’ related incident, it’s a driver negligence incident. What the driver was doing on his phone is irrelevant. He was not paying attention to the road and killed a person, whether he was playing a game on his phone or having a conversation with a passenger doesn’t change the root cause.
“This is not a ‘Pokemon Go’ related incident”
Not sure you understand the meaning of the word “related” – but this is a ‘Pokemon Go’ related incident. Just like if someone crashed while texting, it would be a ‘texting related’ incident.
So go back to your game and stop being so butthurt by facts.
RIP. I’m surprised it took this long.
Are people still playing this obsolete game!
And it is s h i t like this why I browse the Journal with ad blockers on.
Do not need eugenics programs when Pokemon will wipe them out.
Do we now if he caught the Pokemon?
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Hmm, it says he was playing the game, but not that the accident was completely his fault…
If you then take into consideration that the elderly are often terrible drivers due to slower reflexes, reduced vision and other medical issues, the fault may not have been his.
Still a terrible thing to happen, but jumping to conclusions before the facts are published is also a terrible thing to do.
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