Google sued after US man died while following Maps app

The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the Technology giant for negligence, claiming it had been informed of the collapse but failed to update its navigation system.

Philip Paxson, a medical device salesman and father of two, drowned on September 30, last year, after his Jeep Gladiator plunged into Snow Creek in Hickory, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court.

Paxson was driving home from his daughter’s ninth birthday party through an unfamiliar neighbourhood when Google Maps allegedly directed him to cross a bridge that had collapsed nine years prior and was never repaired.

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“Our girls ask how and why their daddy died, and I’m at a loss for words they can understand because, as an adult, I still can’t understand how those responsible for the GPS directions and the bridge could have acted with so little regard for human life,” his wife, Alicia Paxson, said in a news release.

State troopers who found Paxson’s body in his overturned and partially submerged truck had said there were no barriers or warning signs along the washed-out roadway. He had driven off an unguarded edge and crashed about 6m below, according to the lawsuit.

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