While returning from his daughter’s birthday party, a man ended up at the bottom of a lake. His GSP had been telling him to take a broken bridge years ago.
New technologies can be deadly… Like the selfies responsible for many deaths, a man lost his life… because of his GPS. On September 30, Philip Paxson was driving his Jeep in North Carolina. Returning from his eldest daughter’s birthday, this 47-year-old American blindly followed his GPS. Except that his device took him directly to a bridge that had been unusable since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it. “It was a dark, rainy night and he was following his GPS which took him down a concrete road to a bridge that dropped into a riversaid Philip’s mother-in-law, Linda McPhee Koenig, in a Facebook post. The bridge had been destroyed nine years ago and had never been repaired.”
According to her, no barriers or warning signs have put the chip in the ear of Philip Paxson. “He will be sadly missed by his family and friends. It was a completely preventable accident. We mourn his death.”, she added. After the tragedy, the family of the father of the family decided to draw attention to the tragedy which, according to them, could have been avoided with proper maintenance or simple barricades. “It was an avoidable accident, the bridge he crossed at night had a gaping hole and there were no barricades, reads on a fundraising page. VSIt had been like this for many years. Nobody would take the responsibility to fix it and now he has to pay the price. Please pray for our family during this most difficult time.”
He was “always ready for an adventure”
This drama has made the inhabitants of this locality react, worried that a new tragedy is taking place there.. According to his relatives, Philip Paxson “always had a fondness for muscle cars, motorcycles, dirt bikes, boats, really anything with a motor”. “He traveled the world with his stepfather on a motorcycle. He and his wife and their two daughters enjoyed camping and boating with their family and friends. Phil put his family first and his friends almost equal , Secondlysaid his relatives. He was more cheerful and generous than anyone else, always up for an adventure, with a permanent smile on his face.”
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The GPS did not indicate the correct route
Except his device took him straight to a bridge that had been unusable since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it.
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The GPS did not indicate the correct route
“It was a dark, rainy night and he was following his GPS which took him down a concrete road to a bridge that fell into a river,” Philip’s mother-in-law, Linda McPhee Koenig, said in a facebook post
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The GPS did not indicate the correct route
According to her, no barriers or warning signs have put the chip in the ear of Philip Paxson
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The GPS did not indicate the correct route
After the tragedy, the family of the father of the family decided to draw attention to the tragedy which, according to them, could have been avoided with proper maintenance or simple barricades