Teen Hit by Car After Playing Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go has claimed another casualty: a 15-year-old girl was struck by a car after crossing a busy road following a session of the popular mobile game. Autumn Deisroth of Tarentum, Pennsylvania was, according to her mother Tracy Nolan, led to a major highway at rush hour by the game, which she then attempted to cross.

Nolan claims that her daughter had finished playing Pokémon Go by the time she crossed the road, but blames the game for leading Autumn to the dangerous road.

“The Pokémon game took her across a major highway at 5 o’clock in the evening, which is rush hour,” Nolan told WPXI. “No game is worth a child’s life.”

Following the road traffic accident, Autumn was hospitalised with injuries to her foot and collarbone, plus various cuts and bruises.

According to the hospital that treated Autumn, this is not the first Pokémon-related incident they have dealt with since the game’s release last week.

“Parents, don’t let your kids play this game because you don’t want to go through what I went through last night,” Nolan added. “I really thought I was losing my daughter.”

So far, victims of Pokégeddon include muggings, road traffic accidents, the discovery of a dead body, and two men falling off a bluff.