# Google Maps recommends route over bridge that collapsed 10 years ago **URL:** \ **Category:** Safety\ **Created:** [September 22, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/google-maps-recommends-route-over-bridge-that-collapsed-10-years-ago/193012 "2023-09-22T04:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/google-maps-recommends-route-over-bridge-that-collapsed-10-years-ago/193012/1 "2023-09-22T04:44:31Z")
‘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 drivers to cross it.’ ‘the collapsed bridge, which was unmarked, with no barricades.’ [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/us/google-maps-lawsuit-collapsed-bridge.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/us/google-maps-lawsuit-collapsed-bridge.html) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/google-maps-recommends-route-over-bridge-that-collapsed-10-years-ago/193012)._