{"id":146448,"date":"2022-05-18T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=146448&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-05-18T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:46:39","slug":"train-driver-caught-playing-smartphone-game-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/train-driver-caught-playing-smartphone-game-while-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Driver Caught Playing Smartphone Game While Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A driver in his 20s was found to have been playing games on his smartphone several times while driving a local train on the JR Chikuho Main Line yesterday. According to JR Kyushu, at 11:26 a.m. yesterday, a male driver in his 20s was playing a game on his smartphone while driving a local train on the Chikuho Main Line departing from Wakamatsu Station in Kitakyushu City. According to the company&#8217;s investigation, the driver played games on his phone four times during the approximately 50 minutes until the train arrived at Nogata Station. The train was a two-car train with a maximum of 80 passengers, but there were no accidents or delays. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20220517\/5010015821.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146444\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fnn_train-driver-photoac_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C931&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Train Driver Caught Playing Smartphone Game While Driving\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fnn_train-driver-photoac_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fnn_train-driver-photoac_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fnn_train-driver-photoac_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fnn_train-driver-photoac_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.photo-ac.com\/main\/detail\/23604260\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo AC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English <\/b><b>regularly<\/b><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. 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According to JR Kyushu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":146446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-146448","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/146448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}