Google guided a motorcyclist to the destroyed bridge

Mr. Paxson died on September 22, 2022 after falling from a damaged bridge in Hickory, and his family is trying to sue Google for directing Phillip Paxson to the bridge and not informing him that the bridge was damaged. .

Philip Paxson, a father of 2, was in an unknown locality to attend his daughter’s 9th birthday party at a friend’s house. According to the lawsuit, Phillip Paxson’s wife had taken their two daughters home earlier and he stayed to help clean.

The lawyer of this family said:

Because he was not familiar with the local route, Philip decided to use Google Maps to get home so that he could go directly and easily to his family. Tragically, he couldn’t see outside properly when he was in the dark and rain, and the old Google map caused him to ignore the condition of the bridge and die through a bridge that had been damaged for the past 10 years.

According to the lawsuit, residents repeatedly contacted Google to update their map due to the bridge’s destruction.