# Friend drowned his car! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-drowned-his-car/191128 "2023-06-14T20:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 76
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-drowned-his-car/191128/76 "2023-09-27T22:56:06Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Just to say what I said someplace else, on a dark and rainy night, it is very difficult to tell if a bridge or section of it is missing until you are right on it. 🔦 Now, I would ask you to take a close look at this photo. If the your GPS directed you down this “road…” would you follow those directions? It looks more like an abandoned logging trail… ![dash](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/b/b/bbeb9790b16f04bd033a475883bc70765e0c4ff3.jpeg) A Door Dash Driver, out to deliver a box of Dunkin Donuts, claimed that he was following GPS directions to an address in Middleton, Massachusetts, when the GPS led him down a dirt road and then somehow he ended up driving into a body of water. The driver, who was not identified, will be charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle and authorities said they are also requesting a suspension of the driver’s license. > **[DoorDash driver who followed GPS into water charged, police say](https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/doordash-driver-who-followed-gps-into-water-charged-police-say/LBO42DHBGZDUXHSVBJTIUCSU2M/)** > > Authorities said the driver was delivering a Dunkin' order in Massachusetts when they went into the water. Kind of reminiscent of Topic we recently put to bed a while back, " Google Maps recommends route over bridge that collapsed 10 years ago" > [@Google Maps recommends route over bridge that collapsed 10 years ago](https://community.cartalk.com/t/google-maps-recommends-route-over-bridge-that-collapsed-10-years-ago/193012/1): > > ‘Philip Paxson, 47, a medical device salesman, was on his way home from his daughter’s camping-themed ninth birthday party in Hickory, N.C., on Sept. 30, 2022, navigating a rainy night on unfamiliar roads, when he drove off a collapsed roadway into a creek and drowned’ ([https://www.smbb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FILED\_STAMPED-PAXSON-NC-COMPLAINT.FIN\_.pdf](https://www.smbb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FILED_STAMPED-PAXSON-NC-COMPLAINT.FIN_.pdf)) ‘Nearly a year after Mr. Paxson’s death, Mr. Zimmerman said, the bridge has not been repaired and that Google Maps is still directing dr… When the road runs out and the branches start slapping your windshield and your seatbelt is the only thing keeping you from bouncing off the roof of your car as you run over the ruts, the “road” ain’t there any more… 😬 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-drowned-his-car/191128)._