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Real accidents involving children who walked while looking at a phone, plus Korean research on it — one story per article, each checked against the original report.
South Korea
Case · South Korea
High school student wearing earphones killed by a train at a rail crossing
Korea research · South Korea
61.7% of pedestrian casualties were using a phone — three years of insurance records
Korea research · South Korea
One in four Korean elementary schoolers with a phone use it while walking
Korea research · South Korea
Half of Korean elementary schoolers use a phone while walking — 2026 survey and school-zone figures
Korea research · South Korea
Bucheon pilots pausing phone screens at crosswalks outside elementary schools
Cases from around the world
Case · United Kingdom
11-year-old watching a video killed by a train at a footpath crossing on the way to school
Case · Türkiye
Boy looking at his phone falls through an open floor hatch in a shopping mall
Case · Germany
16-year-old crossing tram tracks while distracted by his phone seriously injured
Case · United Kingdom
15-year-old looking at her phone killed by a school bus outside school
Case · Japan
14-year-old walking along a platform edge killed after being caught between train and platform
Case · Germany
15-year-old who didn't see the tram while looking at her phone thrown several meters
Case · Germany
17-year-old wearing headphones and looking at her phone dies after being hit by a tram
Case · Austria
Girls aged 10 and 13, distracted by their phones, injured crossing in front of a tram
Case · United States
14-year-old on a FaceTime call walks into the street and is hit by an SUV
Case · Japan
13-year-old looking at his phone falls onto subway tracks — and survives
