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

Posted by msmash on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:45AM from the don't-catch-them-all dept.

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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Re:little to do with pokeman go by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-26 03:36 · Score: 3, Interesting

It's a amazing my wife once rounded a blind corner (corn field on the inside of the turn) in a rural area to find 20 cyclists who decided to stop and check their map while they were in the road. Even more amazing is that they yelled at her when she went around them and there is plenty of room on the outside of the turn, off the road where they would not have been a hazard.