Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp)

An anonymous reader writes: The Japan Times reports another death. This time a 20 year old woman has died after being hit by a car while riding her bicycle. The man driving the car claimed he was distracted changing the battery because it was nearly flat from playing Pokemon Go. Police have already charged him with negligence resulting in injury. The penalty for causing death is a maximum 7 years jail. The Japanese National Police agency said there have been 79 bicycle and car accidents linked to the game. Another death was reported yesterday

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little to do with pokeman go

[hij]

This is far too common in the US, and many people are killed by cars. This has less to do with pokemon and more to do with understanding the responsibility of piloting a large moving object with people around.

Re:little to do with pokeman go

[Anonymous Coward]

Bicyclists are sanctimonious assholes who believe that the roads were create for them and that everyone else is destroying the earth.

Re:little to do with pokeman go

[alvinrod]

It's also a tenuous link at that. If his battery had been low from shooting video of birds in a park we wouldn't blame this death on bird-watching. This sounds like distracted driving and linking this to one particular game reeks of fishing for a headline and horrible click bait.

Can we attribute more deaths to Pokemon Go with further stretches; e.g., what if someone gets into an accident because they were tired due to staying up late to play Pokemon Go? Or better yet, they're a programmer working on some military software and their lack of sleep leads to the injection of a critical fault into the software which later makes it seem as though the country is under attack leading to global conflict. Pokemon Go is going to cause World War 3!

Two confirmed deaths? Worse than sharks... :Q

[gurps_npc]

There are over 7 billion people in the world. Every day, over 150,000 people die.

Two die playing Pokemon? That's sounds about right.

You need a good comparison to make these kinds of claims. When the number of death per hour played exceeds that for other games, then call me.

Otherwise, go take a class on statistics.

Re:Wow

[jeffmflanagan]

Sure, but are you going to click on a link that says yet another idiot driver killed someone while messing around with his phone? Add Pokemon Go, and you have the fans, the haters, and the dubunkers all clicking your link, viewing your ads, and driving traffic to you via their blogs and social media.

Re:But cyclist have the Right of Way

[MitchDev]

Like I tell my daughter, "Pedestrians may legally have the right of way, but a car is a LOT bigger, heavier, and harder than you. And being "right" means little if you're dead."