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> but I think it's shocking that someone would drive off a bridge that you can see is out from the air. According to the article it was pitch-black and raining

> but I think it's shocking that someone would drive off a bridge that you can see is out from the air. According to the article it was pitch-black and raining. How can you be "shocked" that someone would have worse ground visibility in those conditions compared to your clear-day aerial view? And are you really "shocked" that you can notice a hole in the ground from the air easier than from in front of it? There was a barricade for 9 years. It was removed 1 week before the accident.

crazygringo 3y ago
> There was a barricade for 9 years. It was removed 1 week before the accident. Can you link to a source for that? I'm looking but can't find it. If there was an effective barricade that was removed, it would seem the person/people responsible for that are the most criminally negligent here. That sounds like a positively insane thing to do -- it's going to get someone killed, as it did here. EDIT: found a couple of links: "Typically, barricades are in place to prevent drivers from crossing the bridge, North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. But the barricades had been removed after being vandalized and were missing at the time of Paxson’s wreck." [1] https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article279563759.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/... [2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/20/google-maps-lawsuit-man-drives-off-fallen-bridge-following-directions/70915836007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/20/google...