FrankOVD writes: Google is being sued by a widow who says her husband drowned in September 2022 after Google Maps directed him over a collapsed bridge in Hickory, North Carolina. Google didn’t right its map service regardless of warnings in regards to the damaged bridge two years earlier than the accident, based on the lawsuit filed Tuesday by Alicia Paxson in Wake County Superior Court docket. Philip Paxson “died tragically whereas driving residence from his daughter’s ninth birthday celebration, when he drove off of an unmarked, unbarricaded collapsed bridge in Hickory, North Carolina whereas following GPS instructions,” the grievance stated.
The Snow Creek Bridge reportedly collapsed in 2013 and wasn’t repaired. Barricades had been usually in place however “had been eliminated after being vandalized and had been lacking on the time of Paxson’s wreck,” based on The Charlotte Observer. The lawsuit has 5 defendants, together with Google and its proprietor Alphabet. The opposite defendants are James Tarlton and two native enterprise entities referred to as Tarde, LLC and Hinckley Gauvain, LLC. Tarlton and the 2 companies “owned, managed, and/or had been in any other case chargeable for the land” containing the bridge, the lawsuit stated.
