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The family of a man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following directions from Google Maps is suing the technology giant for negligence.

Google has been sued by the family of a North Carolina man claiming the company’s Maps application last year led him to drive off a collapsed bridge and fall about 20 feet to his death, according to the lawsuit.

A new lawsuit alleges Philip Paxson died using Google Maps at night after he drove off a North Carolina bridge that collapsed nine years prior.

A North Carolina woman sued Google for negligence Tuesday after her husband drove off a collapsed bridge and died while following directions from Google Maps. Alicia Paxson’s husband, Philip Paxson, drove off Snow Creek Bridge in Hickory, N.C., last September, as he returned home from their daughter’s birthday party. The bridge had collapsed nine years…

Philip Paxson was using a GPS to navigate his way back home in September 2022, when he drove onto an “unmarked, unbarricaded” bridge, according to the lawsuit

Google is being sued by the family of a North Carolina man who died after Google Maps reportedly directed him to drive off a collapsed bridge. The family alleges Google was negligent because it failed to update its app to reflect the bridge’s disrepair. Google for its part said it sympathizes with the family and […]

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 Sept. 30, 2022, after his Jeep Gladiator plunged into Snow Creek in Hickory, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court. Paxson was driving ho...

The family of Philip Paxson, who died in crash while following Google Maps directions, blames the tech giant for being negligent.

Nearly a year after a man plunged off of a road into a creek below, his widow is filing a lawsuit against Google.

Two longtime employees of Fox Hill Country Club in Exeter and two of their friends were injured Saturday night in Newton Twp. when they drove into a collapsed bridge on