{"id":11621,"date":"2023-09-21T05:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T03:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/family-sues-google-after-maps-allegedly-directed-father-off-collapsed-bridge\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T03:37:38","slug":"family-sues-google-after-maps-allegedly-directed-father-off-collapsed-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/family-sues-google-after-maps-allegedly-directed-father-off-collapsed-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago<\/p>\n<p>The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google for negligence after he died from crashing into a creek below a collapsed bridge at the alleged behest of Google Maps, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 September 2022, state troopers found \u200b\u200bPhilip Paxson drowned in his overturned pickup truck beneath a bridge that had collapsed nearly a decade earlier. Paxson, who was 47 and from Hickory, North Carolina (about 60 miles north-west of Charlotte), was returning home from his daughter\u2019s ninth birthday before the accident, his mother-in-law wrote in a post on Facebook. She added that neither the destroyed bridge nor the road leading to it had any barriers or warning signs to alert drivers of the hazard.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/20\/google-maps-collapsed-bridge-negligence-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/df8ef4a1bfbb48042ed0e5f7c4498fdde0efeded\/0_12_4500_2699\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=195f22e1a1f9145d5ca176f2a07772ae\" title=\"Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge\" \/>Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago<br \/>\nThe family of a North Carolina man is suing Google for negligence after he died from crashing into a creek below a collapsed bridge at the alleged behest of Google Maps, the Associated Press reported.<br \/>\nOn 30 September 2022, state troopers found \u200b\u200bPhilip Paxson drowned in his overturned pickup truck beneath a bridge that had collapsed nearly a decade earlier. Paxson, who was 47 and from Hickory, North Carolina (about 60 miles north-west of Charlotte), was returning home from his daughter\u2019s ninth birthday before the accident, his mother-in-law wrote in a post on Facebook. She added that neither the destroyed bridge nor the road leading to it had any barriers or warning signs to alert drivers of the hazard. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google for negligence after he died from crashing into a creek below a collapsed bridge at the alleged behest of Google Maps, the Associated Press reported. On &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/family-sues-google-after-maps-allegedly-directed-father-off-collapsed-bridge\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}