Driver Killed a Pedestrian in Japan While Playing Pokemon Go (fortune.com)

An anonymous reader writes: One woman was killed and another injured. In what police are calling Japan's first death linked to Pokemon Go, a driver playing the smartphone game hit two pedestrians on Tuesday night, officials said. The collision broke the neck of one woman, killing her, and left another woman with a broken hip, the Wall Street Journal reports. Police in Tokushima, on the western Japanese island of Shikoku, told the Wall Street Journal the women were crossing the street when the car struck them. The man driving the car did not see them because was playing Pokemon Go.

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I hope it was at least a Dragonair

[Anonymous Coward]

Dratinis, while rare, aren't worth killing for. Their evolved forms, however... I guess we have to hope it was a Dragonair or a Dragonite.