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Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge (www.theguardian.com)

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Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago

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[–] uskok@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In 2020, an 18-year-old Russian motorist froze to death after he and a friend were stranded in a vehicle for a week after following a Google Maps route through Serbia’s “road of bones”.

The road of bones is not in Serbia, it's in Russia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway