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On 21 July 2016, Facebook user Rachel Trent published the information reproduced above to Facebook, requesting that friends and acquaintances please refrain from exposing her to content regarding Pokemon Go because her father had been tragically killed in a wrong-way collision near Knoxville, Tennessee, involving a driver playing the augmented reality game: It wasn't difficult to establish that sadly, Trent's father was killed in a crash by a fellow driver going the wrong way on Interstate 40: However, the portion about Pokemon Go being a factor in the accident is in dispute. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, authorities were still investigating the causes of the crash at the time of Rachel Trent's post: The newspaper additionally reported there was no indication the Pokemon Go game had caused Swartz to be driving on the wrong side of the interstate: Police have yet to find any link between the crash and Pokemon Go, and the stretch of interstate in question has been the site of a number of wrong way crashes in recent years. Had investigators deemed Swartz to be playing Pokemon Go at the time of the crash, there's no reason to believe they would not inform the public and issue an attendant warning. But police cited the density of interchanges along that stretch of I-40 as a possible factor common among the crashes ... [as] numerous exits and on-ramps offer more opportunities for an impaired or confused driver to begin heading the wrong way on the interstate late at night.
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