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Taking Roy's lead......... Terry
Straight from the ?you can't sue somebody for that, can you?? file comes this latest boneheaded court case.
Like most people who are a little unsure with directions, Lauren Rosenberg of Park City, UT, decided to use Google Maps to get information on a walking trail from one side of town to the other. The online program pulled up her directions, and the route included walking on a road without sidewalks ? namely, Route 224.
But instead of walking away from traffic on the highway or finding a safer route, Rosenberg instead walked down the middle of the road ? and was (unsurprisingly) stuck by a vehicle.
Rosenberg and her lawyers are now suing Google for $100,000 for causing the accident. According to the legal brief: ?The Defendant Google expects users of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given. As a direct and proximate cause of the Defendant Google?s careless, reckless and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle.?
Google insists that even though the ?common sense? rule should apply, it still places a warning below every map that states: ?Use caution ? This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.?
Rosenberg?s lawyers are claiming that the warning wasn?t visible on her BlackBerry phone, so Google is indeed responsible for leading her into the middle of a busy highway.
Straight from the ?you can't sue somebody for that, can you?? file comes this latest boneheaded court case.
Like most people who are a little unsure with directions, Lauren Rosenberg of Park City, UT, decided to use Google Maps to get information on a walking trail from one side of town to the other. The online program pulled up her directions, and the route included walking on a road without sidewalks ? namely, Route 224.
But instead of walking away from traffic on the highway or finding a safer route, Rosenberg instead walked down the middle of the road ? and was (unsurprisingly) stuck by a vehicle.
Rosenberg and her lawyers are now suing Google for $100,000 for causing the accident. According to the legal brief: ?The Defendant Google expects users of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given. As a direct and proximate cause of the Defendant Google?s careless, reckless and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle.?
Google insists that even though the ?common sense? rule should apply, it still places a warning below every map that states: ?Use caution ? This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.?
Rosenberg?s lawyers are claiming that the warning wasn?t visible on her BlackBerry phone, so Google is indeed responsible for leading her into the middle of a busy highway.
