Google is a co-defendant in a suit filed by the family of a man who followed Google Maps directions to his death.
Google Maps gave 47-year-old Philip Paxson directions that led him to drive off a collapsed bridge to his death alleges a lawsuit filed against Google and others by the North Carolina man’s family. Paxson was driving home from a party for his daughter’s ninth birthday party on September 30, 2022, when according to the lawsuit, the Google Maps app directed him to drive over a bridge that collapsed in 2013.Per Gizmodo, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Paxson’s widow, Alicia. The law firm representing the family issued a press release saying that “directions from Google Maps misguided him to his death over a long collapsed bridge.” Paxson and his family had just moved from Florida to Hickory, North Carolina; since Philip was unfamiliar with the area, he relied on Google Maps for navigation. But in the dark and the rain, the app was leading Paxson toward a bridge that was called the “Bridge to Nowhere” by locals for a decade.
