The family of Philip Paxson says he died after following Google Maps over a long-collapsed bridge in the dark.
A family is suing Google and several others after a husband and father of two drove his Jeep over a collapsed bridge in North Carolina while allegedly following Google Maps, causing him to drive into a creek and drown.Philip Paxson died last September while driving home from his daughter's birthday party in an unfamiliar Hickory, North Carolina, neighborhood and—according to the lawsuit—following Google's directions over a bridge that had been collapsed for nine years.
Several people told Google about the collapse in the years leading up to the death and the company failed to update its route information, the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court in North Carolina says, and one local resident said she even received an email confirmation that the report was received, but nothing was ever changed.
The lawsuit says the collapsed bridge was still depicted as a passable road on Google Maps as of April, but as of Wednesday Google suggests a different route between the two addresses in question.
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