Family of North Carolina man 告訴するing Google for '怠慢，過失' over death

The family of a man from North Carolina who died after 運動ing off a 崩壊（する）d 橋（渡しをする） while に引き続いて Google 地図／計画するs directions is 告訴するing the tech 巨大（な） for 怠慢，過失 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing it had failed to update its 航海 system.

US 海軍 退役軍人 Philip Paxson (pictured left), 47, was using Google 地図／計画するs to 運動 home from his eldest daughter's ninth birthday party in Hickory, North Carolina on September 30, 2022.?But the GPS put him on the unfamiliar path of a 橋（渡しをする） that 崩壊（する）d nearly a １０年間 earlier and was never 修理d, 原因（となる）ing him to 溺死する.?The father-of-two's family とじ込み／提出するd a 訴訟 in Wake 郡 on Tuesday against Google and 非難するd the company for his death.

Paxson's Jeep 急落（する），激減（する）d off an unguarded 辛勝する／優位, 衝突，墜落d 20 feet below and he 溺死するd, によれば the 訴訟. 'Our girls ask how and why their daddy died, and I'm at a loss for words they can understand because, as an adult, I still can't understand how those 責任がある the GPS directions and the 橋（渡しをする） could have 行為／法令／行動するd with so little regard for human life,' his 未亡人 Alicia Paxson said. 明言する／公表する 州警察官，騎馬警官s who 設立する Paxton's 団体／死体 in his overturned and 部分的に／不公平に 潜水するd トラックで運ぶ had said there were no 障壁s or 警告 調印するs along the washed-out roadway.

He had driven off an unguarded 辛勝する／優位 and 衝突，墜落d about 20 feet below, によれば the 訴訟. Paxson and his wife had planned a （軍の）野営地，陣営ing trip for their daughter's birthday but had to suddenly change 計画（する）s because of an 差し迫った 嵐／襲撃する. The family held a （軍の）野営地，陣営ing-主題d party at a friends home in the are of Hickory, 50 miles north of Charlotte. The 訴訟 says that Paxson was not familiar with Hickory. He traveled 分かれて from his wife.

多重の people had 通知するd Google 地図／計画するs about the 崩壊（する） in the years 主要な up to Paxson's death and had 勧めるd the company to update its 大勝する （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, によれば the 訴訟. The 法廷，裁判所 とじ込み／提出するing 含むs email 記録，記録的な／記録するs from another Hickory 居住（者） who had used the 地図／計画する's '示唆する an edit' feature in September 2020 to 警報 the company that it was directing drivers over the 崩壊（する）d 橋（渡しをする）.

A November 2020 email 確定／確認 from Google 確認するs the company received her 報告（する）／憶測 and was reviewing the 示唆するd change, but the 訴訟 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Google took no その上の 活動／戦闘s. 'We have the deepest sympathies for the Paxson family,' a Google 広報担当者 said. 'Our goal is to 供給する 正確な 大勝するing （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） in 地図／計画するs and we are reviewing this 訴訟. As of April 26, 2023, and upon （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） and belief at other times thereafter, the 崩壊（する）d 橋（渡しをする） was still 描写するd as a passable road on Google 地図／計画するs […] にもかかわらず the Google 地図／計画する 被告s having been placed on notice yet again of the danger,' another section of 訴訟 reads.

The North Carolina 明言する／公表する Patrol had said the 橋（渡しをする） was not 持続するd by 地元の or 明言する／公表する 公式の／役人s, and the 初めの developer's company had 解散させるd. The 訴訟 指名するs Hickory 実業家 James Tarlton and companies Tarde LLC and Hinckley Gauvain LLC as the owners of the 橋（渡しをする） and the surrounding land, によれば the Hickory 記録，記録的な／記録する.?Tarlton and the two 商売／仕事s have been （刑事）被告 of failing to 修理 the 損失d 橋（渡しをする） and not 供給するing enough lighting to 妨げる people from 衝突，墜落ing into Snow Creek.

'It still doesn't seem real,' Alicia (pictured) said during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 on Wednesday. She 出発／死d their daughter's birthday party earlier with their daughters while Paxon stayed behind to help clean up. 'How is it nine years that this did not happen, and why did it have to be him?' Alicia said at the time. 'Like, why do my kids have to have no dad now, you know?'

After celebrating the newly nine-year-old's birthday at a family friend's house, 'we packed up all the decorations, he packed up the 先頭, and he 負担d the girls into the 先頭,' she said.

Paxon 'had a lifelong affection for muscle cars, motorcycles, dirt bikes, boats, really anything with a モーター,' his obituary read. 'He traveled the world with his father-in-法律 riding motorcycles. He and his wife along with their two daughters enjoyed （軍の）野営地，陣営ing and boating with family and friends. Phil put his family first and his friends, almost equal, second.

'He was larger than life, always r eady for an adventure, with a 永久の smile on his 直面する, he would give you the shirt off his 支援する or talk you out of the one on yours.' At the time of his death, he worked as a 医療の 装置 salesman.?Read the 十分な story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12542575/Family-North-Carolina-man-died-運動ing-崩壊（する）d-橋（渡しをする）-告訴するing-Google-outdated-地図／計画するs-misguided-death.html?ito=msngallery

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