North Carolina Father Of 2 Dies After GPS Leads Him Off ‘Destroyed’ Bridge
07.10.2022 - 22:39
/ perezhilton.com
A North Carolina man tragically lost his life after being led off a cliff by his GPS.
Phil Paxson was returning home from his daughter’s ninth birthday celebration last Friday in Hickory, N.C. on what his mother-in-law, Linda McPhoee Koeing, described as a “dark and rainy night” in a Monday Facebook post. His wife, Alicia Paxson, recalls in an FB message of her own how the two drove in separate cars to the event:
Koeing explained in her post:
She noted the bridge didn’t have any “barriers or warning signs to prevent the death of a 47-year-old father of two daughters.” Unfortunately he apparently couldn’t see that the bridge just ended in the rainy night.
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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol was made aware the following morning, October 1, of a car in a river, according to WCNC. When authorities arrived at the scene, they discovered Phil’s 2020 Jeep Gladiator overturned and submerged in water. His body was recovered shortly after.
Alicia is calling the event “an avoidable tragedy,” citing articles over the past nine years of community members pleading for the bridge to be fixed. Queen City News confirmed the bridge had been washed away in 2013. The widow expressed to the outlet:
N.C. State Highway Patrol claim there were once barriers to prevent drivers from danger but say they have since been moved. They also tell QC News the bridge was not controlled by local or state officials, and the Secretary of State shared via its website that the developer’s company, which had previously owned the property management, had been dissolved.
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Phil leaves behind his wife,