Google sued after man drove off collapsed bridge following map directions

Philip Paxton's family claimed that multiple people had notified Google Maps about the collapse in the years leading up to his death and had urged the company to update its route information [Denis Charlet/AFP]

Google is being sued for negligence by the family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following directions given by Google Maps.

Philip Paxton, a medical device salesman and father of two drowned in September last year after his jeep plunged off the bridge that had broken off nine years ago.