The alternate route took drivers down a dirt road that rain had turned into a muddy mess, and cars started sliding around
A crash on Peña Boulevard, a road leading to Denver International Airport, prompted the app to take drivers on a detour on Sunday. But it was too good to be true.. Some vehicles couldn't make it through the mud, and about 100 others became trapped behind them.Connie Monsees captured this image of the dozens of stuck cars Sunday.Read MoreConnie Monsees was on her way to pick up her husband at the airport when she encountered the wreck on Peña Boulevard.
"I thought 'maybe there's a detour' and pulled it up on Google Maps, and it gave me a a detour that was half the time," she said."It was 43 minutes initially, and it was going to be 23 instead -- so I took the exit and drove where they told me to."There were a bunch of other cars going down [the dirt road] too, so I said, 'I guess it's OK.' It was not OK.
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