Defective GPS instructions led to the demise of a North Carolina man final week, Individuals reported on Thursday.
Phil Paxson, 47, was on his method house from celebrating his daughter’s ninth birthday final week when his GPS led him down a highway on a “darkish and wet evening,” Paxson’s mother-in-law Linda McPhee Koenig shared on Fb.
Paxson, who was following his GPS, proceeded to move to the location of a bridge that was destroyed 9 years in the past and “by no means repaired” once more, Koenig famous.
The shortage of boundaries or warning indicators across the destroyed bridge –– which might have gone over a creek –– value him his life, she stated.
Paxson was later found lifeless inside his Jeep.
North Carolina State Freeway Patrol reported that barricades meant to warn drivers of the destroyed bridge “have been apparently eliminated” from the realm, in keeping with WCNC-TV.
“He will probably be tremendously missed by his household and associates. It was a very preventable accident. We’re grieving his demise,” Koenig wrote of Paxson, a father of two.
Koenig later shared a GoFundMe organized by the person’s sister-in-law to lift cash for the household.
The positioning of the destroyed bridge — positioned in Hickory, North Carolina — has left neighbors “fed up” over time and it’s been a priority that “nobody needs to assert duty” for locally, WCNC-TV reported.
The highway main as much as the bridge just isn’t owned by an area municipality or the state, in keeping with North Carolina State Freeway Patrol.
Paxson’s good friend Jon Hopson advised the information station that they’ve heard “time after time” that it’s “a non-public highway and nobody is chargeable for the highway.”
Kayla Bubar, Paxson’s sister-in-law, stated she’s hoping to seek out who’s chargeable for the destroyed bridge.
“Phil didn’t need to die like that and it’s a horrible factor to undergo. His youngsters now don’t have any father,” Bubar advised WCNC-TV.
“We’re not going to let it go and we’re going to discover out who’s chargeable for it.”