Posted on 10/08/2022 3:37:51 PM PDT by george76
The Hickory bridge had been inoperative for about nine years, and any barricades had been washed away
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A North Carolina man is dead after his GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek on Sept. 30.
Phillip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two girls, had been driving his Jeep at night from his oldest daughter's birthday party in Hickory when his GPS led him to a bridge that has been inoperative since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it.
"It was a dark and rainy night and he was following his GPS which led him down a concrete road to a bridge that dropped off into a river," Paxson's mother-in-law, Linda McPhee Koenig, said in a Tuesday Facebook post. "The bridge had been destroyed [nine] years ago and never repaired. It lacked any barriers or warning signs to prevent the death of a 47 year old [sic] father of two daughters. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. It was a totally preventable accident. We are grieving his death."
Now, Paxson's family is trying to bring attention to the tragedy they believe could have been avoided with proper maintenance or even just signage and barricades from the city warning drivers not to drive toward the bridge.
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"This was a preventable accident, the bridge he went over at night had a gaping hole and their were no barricades
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locals have established a makeshift memorial, told the outlet. "He drove to his death through that 20 [foot] ravine."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Thumbs up.
Yeah like i said, the car’s GPS nav software is TRASH.
If a bridge is out on a concrete road, the fault lies with the local government for not blocking the hole.
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