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Father of 2 dies after GPS led him to washed-away bridge, family says

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A man is dead after faulty GPS coordinates may have led him to drive his Jeep off a North Carolina bridge that had washed away in 2013.

There was no signage or barricade on the bridge to alert drivers of its decrepit state. His family has called the incident an “avoidable tragedy.” On Sept.

30, Phil Paxson, 47, was driving home from his daughter’s ninth birthday party before he drove off the bridge in Catawba County, N.C.

Paxson’s mother-in-law claimed incorrect GPS co-ordinates led the father of two to the bridge on a “dark and rainy night.” Read more: Easter Island fire ravages sacred statues, damage may be ‘irreparable’ “He was following his GPS which led him down a concrete road to a bridge that dropped off into a river,” wrote Paxson’s mother-in-law, Linda McPhee Koenig. “The bridge had been destroyed 9 years ago and never repaired.” Paxson’s 2020 Jeep Gladiator was found upside-down and partially submerged in the water the following day under the collapsed bridge, NBC affiliate WCNC reported.

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