A woman is killed in Japan by a truck driver who was playing Pokemon go.
On August 24 a 39 year old farmer was driving around in a small truck playing Pokemon go, walking across the street were 2 woman, the man failed to see the woman because he was playing and struck both woman with his truck.
One of the woman who was said to be in her early 70's, unfortunately died from a spinal injury while the other woman is being hospitalized and has a severe injury.
This is the first ever car accident that has happened in Japan with Pokemon go being the cause of the accident. Now as most already know Pokemon go is a game that has take the world by storm. It is a virtual reality game which is free to play which is basically where u just walk around and look for Pokemon. A good thing that Pokemon go is that it's gotten everyone moving and being more active.
However no matter how popular the game is, for someone to lose there life to it is simply horrible. In fact anything such as texting or going on social media while driving is unwise and unsafe for everyone. There have all ready been accidents in the United States that have been caused by People playing Pokemon go.
These accidents need to stop happening because we have the power to stop them simply focus on the road and leave your phone out of it.
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/24/technology/pokemon-go-death-japan/index.html
Personally I would consider someone being reckless if they were texting and driving, but playing an IPhone game in the car is absolutely absurd. I can't believe someone was actually killed because some idiot was searching for Pokémon.
ReplyDeleteEveryone thinks Pokemon go is a great way of getting people to be active but we should really evaluate the downside. This demonstrates it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteEveryone thinks Pokemon go is a great way of getting people to be active but we should really evaluate the downside. This demonstrates it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteI personally love playing games on my phone. However, I do not think anyone should be driving while on a phone or device. I agree that people should put their phone down while driving or going places.
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