An unnamed GPS platform led a driver to a bridge that had been washed out leading to his death. It's a lesson for all of us who rely on turn-by-turn directions.
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Now we don't know exactly which GPS platform 47-year-old Philip Paxson was using at the end of last month when he was driving in North Carolina at night from a birthday party for his older daughter. According to, the directions he was blindly following took him to a bridge that had been out of commission since July 2013 when floods wiped it out. Without any warning signs or barricades , Paxson drove his 2020 Jeep Gladiator on the bridge which took him into the river where he died.
On Facebook, Paxson’s mother-in-law, Linda McPhee Koenig, explained what happened."It was a dark and rainy night and he was following his GPS which led him down a concrete road to a bridge that dropped off into a river. The bridge had been destroyed [nine] years ago and never repaired. It lacked any barriers or warning signs to prevent the death of a 47 year old [sic] father of two daughters. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. It was a totally preventable accident.
And there are plenty of institutions that deserve to be blamed here. Even if it was on a private road, there should have been signs or barricades to prevent any vehicles from getting near the bridge.
As we've stated, the road shows up on GPS. Bubar explained why her now deceased brother-in-law might have had punched in the road with the bridge."He could have easily put it in the GPS and gone this way because all of the neighbors say the quickest way out of here is that way. And most people choose the quickest way. My sister’s friend drove up to that edge multiple times but thankfully it was daytime.
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