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   "incident_date": "2011-03",
   "location": "northern Nevada",
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   "outcome": "A couple died",
   "people": "a couple from British Columbia",
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    "Death by GPS refers to the death of people attributable, in part, to following GPS directions or GPS maps.",
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    "## Incidents",
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   "url": "https://rvingwithrex.com/2023/02/12/death-by-gps",
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   "location": "desert hills of Nevada, Coaldale, Nevada, U.S. Highway 95",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Ronnie Barker passed away due to dehydration; Bev Barker was rescued, airlifted to a Reno hospital, and physically recovered; motorhome and toad car stranded in sand",
   "people": "Ronnie and Bev Barker, an Indiana couple",
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    "Bev Barker was airlifted to a Reno hospital and was able to physically recover in a fairly short time.",
    "Partly due to dehydration he finally passed away just two days before rescuers heard Bev\u2019s repeated SOS horn toots and found the couple still together in their Kia."
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    "One post by a family member suggests that a setting on the GPS allowed for off-highway direction."
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   "url": "https://rvingwithrex.com/2023/02/12/death-by-gps",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2022-09-30",
   "location": "Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, near 24th Street Place Northeast",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "1 person killed (Phillip Paxson), vehicle overturned in a creek",
   "people": "Phillip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two girls",
   "navigation": "GPS led him to a bridge that has been inoperative since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it",
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    "Death by GPS",
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    "Authorities with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol responded to reports of an overturned vehicle in a creek near 24th Street Place Northeast\u2014a private road\u2014in Catawba County, according to WCNC."
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    "Phillip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two girls had been driving his Jeep at night from his oldest daughter\u2019s birthday party in Hickory when his GPS led him to a bridge that has been inoperative since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it."
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   "url": "https://rvingwithrex.com/2023/02/12/death-by-gps",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2022-01",
   "location": "Walnut Grove, British Columbia, 96th Avenue near 217 A Street",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle struck by train at slow speed and pushed for almost the length of a soccer field; vehicle a write-off; nobody injured, occupants got clear",
   "people": "A driver and his passenger",
   "navigation": "GPS steered driver down the railway tracks instead of the 96th Avenue roadway",
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   "url": "http://rvingwithrex.com/2023/02/12/death-by-gps",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2022-03-28",
   "location": "desert hills of Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "motorhome and toad car stranded in sand; Ronnie Barker died; Bev Barker was rescued and airlifted to a Reno hospital",
   "people": "Ronnie and Bev Barker",
   "navigation": "motorhome's GPS with a setting allowing for off-highway direction",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "The next morning, March 28 they got into the Kia and headed off down the road in what they hoped was the direction that would get them help."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "An Indiana couple, Ronnie and Bev Barker went missing along with their motorhome on a trip from Oregon to Arizona."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Partly due to dehydration he finally passed away just two days before rescuers heard Bev\u2019s repeated SOS horn toots and found the couple still together in their Kia."
   ],
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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   "url": "http://rvingwithrex.com/2023/02/12/death-by-gps",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "GPS \u201ctold us we could drive down there,\u201d one of the Japanese tourists explained."
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   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "The BMW driver echoed these words, almost verbatim: \u201cIt kept insisting the path was a road.\u201d"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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   "url": "https://sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS' in desert",
   "incident_date": "2009-08-06",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
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   "outcome": "One child (6-year-old Carlos Sanchez) died; the driver (Alicia Sanchez, 28) survived and was rescued",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos Sanchez",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "And it was down that road \u2013 on Aug. 6, 2009 \u2013 that Nattrass spotted the Jeep stuck up to its axles in the sand with SOS spelled in medical tape on the windshield."
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    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat.",
    "Alicia, then 28, a nurse from Las Vegas, was lying next to it in the shade, distraught over the death of her son and so dehydrated she had been drinking her own urine."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "\"She turned down a wrong road,\" Nattrass said in a recent interview. \"She said she was following her GPS unit.\"",
    "And according to Amber Nattrass \u2013 the ranger who found them \u2013 GPS played a role in leading the mother astray."
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   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains, United States",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "Albert died of starvation and exposure, while Rita survived",
   "people": "Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien",
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In 2011, Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien became stranded for 49 days in Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains after their GPS routed them onto an unpaved backroad during a cross-country trip; Albert died of [starvation](/page/Starvation) and exposure, while Rita survived on [candy](/page/Candy) and melted snow until rescue.[2]"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In 2011, Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien became stranded for 49 days in Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains after their GPS routed them onto an unpaved backroad during a cross-country trip; Albert died of [starvation](/page/Starvation) and exposure, while Rita survived on [candy](/page/Candy) and melted snow until rescue.[2]"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In 2011, Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien became stranded for 49 days in Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains after their GPS routed them onto an unpaved backroad during a cross-country trip; Albert died of [starvation](/page/Starvation) and exposure, while Rita survived on [candy](/page/Candy) and melted snow until rescue.[2]"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In 2011, Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien became stranded for 49 days in Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains after their GPS routed them onto an unpaved backroad during a cross-country trip; Albert died of [starvation](/page/Starvation) and exposure, while Rita survived on [candy](/page/Candy) and melted snow until rescue.[2]"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In 2011, Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien became stranded for 49 days in Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains after their GPS routed them onto an unpaved backroad during a cross-country trip; Albert died of [starvation](/page/Starvation) and exposure, while Rita survived on [candy](/page/Candy) and melted snow until rescue.[2]"
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "In 2011, Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien became stranded for 49 days in Nevada's remote Jarbidge Mountains after their GPS routed them onto an unpaved backroad during a cross-country trip; Albert died of [starvation](/page/Starvation) and exposure, while Rita survived on [candy](/page/Candy) and melted snow until rescue.[2]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "California's Death Valley National Park, United States",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "son's death from dehydration; mother stranded without water",
   "people": "Spanish tourist Alicia Sanchez and her son",
   "navigation": "GPS directions on a road with no outlet",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS"
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "Carlos succumbed to dehydration and heatstroke on August 6; Sanchez was rescued the following day",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse from Las Vegas, and her 11-year-old son Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS unit that directed her Jeep Cherokee onto a rough, closed backcountry road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### Pre-2010 Cases"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "### Pre-2010 Cases",
    "Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse from [Las Vegas](/page/Las_Vegas), was traveling with her 11-year-old son Carlos when her GPS unit directed her [Jeep Cherokee](/page/Jeep_Cherokee) onto a rough, closed backcountry road in the park's remote southwest corner near the Owlshead Mountains."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### Pre-2010 Cases"
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### Pre-2010 Cases",
    "After five days of rationing limited food and fluids\u2014including drinking their own urine\u2014Carlos succumbed to [dehydration](/page/Dehydration) and heatstroke on August 6."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "### Pre-2010 Cases",
    "Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse from [Las Vegas](/page/Las_Vegas), was traveling with her 11-year-old son Carlos when her GPS unit directed her [Jeep Cherokee](/page/Jeep_Cherokee) onto a rough, closed backcountry road in the park's remote southwest corner near the Owlshead Mountains."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### Pre-2010 Cases",
    "Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse from [Las Vegas](/page/Las_Vegas), was traveling with her 11-year-old son Carlos when her GPS unit directed her [Jeep Cherokee](/page/Jeep_Cherokee) onto a rough, closed backcountry road in the park's remote southwest corner near the Owlshead Mountains."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2015-03",
   "location": "closed bridge near the Indiana-Illinois border, United States",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "wife Zohra perished, husband survived with burns",
   "people": "Iftikhar Hussain, 64, and his wife Zohra, 51",
   "navigation": "navigation system [GPS] that failed to account for the bridge's closure",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "Iftikhar Hussain, 64, was traveling from [Chicago](/page/Chicago) to visit family when the navigation system failed to account for the bridge's closure, causing his [Nissan Sentra](/page/Nissan_Sentra) to plunge approximately 38 feet and ignite; his wife Zohra, 51, perished, while he survived with burns."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "Iftikhar Hussain, 64, was traveling from [Chicago](/page/Chicago) to visit family when the navigation system failed to account for the bridge's closure, causing his [Nissan Sentra](/page/Nissan_Sentra) to plunge approximately 38 feet and ignite; his wife Zohra, 51, perished, while he survived with burns."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "Iftikhar Hussain, 64, was traveling from [Chicago](/page/Chicago) to visit family when the navigation system failed to account for the bridge's closure, causing his [Nissan Sentra](/page/Nissan_Sentra) to plunge approximately 38 feet and ignite; his wife Zohra, 51, perished, while he survived with burns."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2022-09",
   "location": "collapsed bridge in Hickory, North Carolina, United States",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "Philip Paxson drowned (1 killed)",
   "people": "Philip Paxson, a 45-year-old father of two",
   "navigation": "Google Maps directions that routed him across the site as if it were intact",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "The bridge over Snow Creek had been destroyed by flooding in 2013 following [Hurricane Sandy](/page/Hurricane_Sandy) remnants, but the app routed him across the site as if it were intact, leading to a 20-foot plunge into the water below."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2024-11",
   "location": "damaged bridge over the Ramganga River in Uttar Pradesh, India",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "three young men died (driver and two passengers killed)",
   "people": "three young men, residents of Moradabad",
   "navigation": "Google Maps navigation app that did not reflect the damage or closure",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "The victims, residents of [Moradabad](/page/Moradabad) traveling to a [wedding](/page/Wedding) in [Bareilly](/page/Bareilly), were directed onto a bridge that had been partially destroyed by floods earlier that year; the navigation app did not reflect the damage or closure."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "The vehicle fell approximately 50 feet, killing the driver and two passengers on the spot."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "The victims, residents of [Moradabad](/page/Moradabad) traveling to a [wedding](/page/Wedding) in [Bareilly](/page/Bareilly), were directed onto a bridge that had been partially destroyed by floods earlier that year; the navigation app did not reflect the damage or closure."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "The victims, residents of [Moradabad](/page/Moradabad) traveling to a [wedding](/page/Wedding) in [Bareilly](/page/Bareilly), were directed onto a bridge that had been partially destroyed by floods earlier that year; the navigation app did not reflect the damage or closure."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grokipedia.com/page/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "2025-03",
   "location": "CA-643 road in the Lunada pass, Cantabria region, Spain",
   "hazard": "cliff",
   "outcome": "four young men died",
   "people": "four young men from Madrid",
   "navigation": "navigation system that recommended the shortest path via the CA-643 road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "While en route to a rural house, the navigation system recommended the shortest path via the CA-643 road in the Lunada pass, which lacks barriers and is typically closed in winter but was open at the time."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "Their [Audi A3](/page/Audi_A3) plunged off the edge, sparking renewed debate on the dangers of blindly trusting GPS algorithms in adverse weather and complex terrains without safety overrides.[29]Since"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### 2010-Present Cases",
    "While en route to a rural house, the navigation system recommended the shortest path via the CA-643 road in the Lunada pass, which lacks barriers and is typically closed in winter but was open at the time."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/329179-death-gps.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS'",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver Alicia Sanchez survived. Her 6-year-old son Carlos died in the front seat. Alicia had walked 10 miles, run out of water, and drank her own urine before being rescued.",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS unit",
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    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat.",
    "\"She told me they walked 10 miles but couldn't find any help (and) \u2026 had run out of water and had been drinking their own urine,\" Nattrass wrote."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "\"She turned down a wrong road,\" Nattrass said in a recent interview. \"She said she was following her GPS unit.\""
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  {
   "url": "https://thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/329179-death-gps-2.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS'",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Alicia Sanchez survived after being rescued; her 6-year-old son Carlos died in the vehicle.",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS unit; followed wrong road as instructed by GPS",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "\"Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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    "\"Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "\"Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "\"Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "\"She turned down a wrong road,\" Nattrass said in a recent interview. \"She said she was following her GPS unit.\""
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   "url": "https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "English",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "almost plunged to his death; did not result in critical injuries",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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  {
   "url": "https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Moreton Bay, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "drove their rental car into Moreton Bay; did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
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    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4].",
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   "people_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The final destination: Incorporating \u2018Death by GPS\u2019 into forensic and legal sciences",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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  {
   "url": "https://seattletimes.com/life/travel/gps-can-steer-unwary-drivers-into-disaster",
   "title": "GPS can steer unwary drivers into disaster",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son, Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS unit, following a wrong road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "\u201cI called as I approached, asking if she was OK,\u201d wrote Ranger Amber Nattrass in a park report after the August 2009 stranding."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez\u2019s lifeless 6-year-old son, Carlos, on the front seat."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
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  {
   "url": "https://seattletimes.com/life/travel/gps-can-steer-unwary-drivers-into-disaster",
   "title": "GPS can steer unwary drivers into disaster",
   "incident_date": "summer",
   "location": "Saline Valley via Highway 190, Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Visitors arriving from the west",
   "navigation": "GPS unit instructed to find Scotty's Castle, directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley, leading to a rough four-wheel-drive road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty\u2019s Castle, a popular tourist destination easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty\u2019s Castle, a popular tourist destination easily accessible by paved road.",
    "Instead, the unit directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley, where they turned right onto an even rougher four-wheel-drive road and became stuck."
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty\u2019s Castle, a popular tourist destination easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Some drivers in Death Valley National Park follow GPS into disaster, down roads that are no longer passable.",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty\u2019s Castle, a popular tourist destination easily accessible by paved road.",
    "Instead, the unit directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley, where they turned right onto an even rougher four-wheel-drive road and became stuck."
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   "url": "https://rvlifestyle.com/not-trust-gps",
   "title": "Why We Should Not Trust GPS Completely | RV Lifestyle",
   "incident_date": "2022-03-28",
   "location": "Nevada's high desert, mountain west of Silver Peak, Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One killed (Ronnie Barker passed away on April 4), one survived and was rescued by a search team after a week",
   "people": "Ronnie and Beverly Barker, 72 and 69 respectively, residents of Indiana",
   "navigation": "GPS with \"avoid highway\" setting selected, which pointed them to a county road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Why We Should Not Trust GPS Completely",
    "How Did the Missing Couple Get Stranded?",
    "On Monday, March 28, they unhooked their Kia Soul and started to head back down the mountain."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Why We Should Not Trust GPS Completely",
    "How Did the Missing Couple Get Stranded?",
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    "Ronnie and Beverly Barker, 72 and 69 respectively, residents of Indiana, were traveling in their Class C RV, towing a Kia, from Oregon to Arizona when the couple\u2019s GPS guided them to a road that ultimately led them up a mountain west of Silver Peak, Nevada."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Why We Should Not Trust GPS Completely",
    "How Did the Missing Couple Get Stranded?",
    "look no further than the tragic news story about an elderly couple stranded in Nevada\u2019s high desert because their GPS routed their RV through backroads.",
    "They were missing for more than a week, and only one survived.",
    "\u201cEventually peace came upon the both of them,\u201d Peters wrote, \u201cand Ronnie Barker passed away at 3:12 p.m. on Monday April 4.\u201d",
    "Beverly Barker remained in the car with her husband for the next day and a half until her SOS honking alerted a nearby search team Tuesday afternoon."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Why We Should Not Trust GPS Completely",
    "How Did the Missing Couple Get Stranded?",
    "Ronnie and Beverly Barker, 72 and 69 respectively, residents of Indiana, were traveling in their Class C RV, towing a Kia, from Oregon to Arizona when the couple\u2019s GPS guided them to a road that ultimately led them up a mountain west of Silver Peak, Nevada."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Why We Should Not Trust GPS Completely",
    "The Biggest Mistake: Having the wrong setting on their GPS",
    "It turns out the \u201cavoid highway\u201d setting on the GPS may have been selected, which is why the GPS pointed them to a county road."
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  {
   "url": "https://disaster-wise.blogspot.com/2011/02/gps-and-way-to-dusty-death.html",
   "title": "GPS and the Way to Dusty Death",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Death Valley",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One driver got stuck in the wilderness; she survived long enough for rescue but her son didn't.",
   "people": "A mother and her boy",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "The Sacramento Bee has a good article on [death by GPS](http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html) syndrome, in which visitors to a place like Death Valley arrive by car or SUV and follow their GPS units onto abandoned tracks marked on the electronic map as passable roads."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "And all this at temperatures that can exceed 120F.",
    "The area where one driver got stuck is shown on this[map ](http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727_a3362940/death-by-gps-in-desert.html)in the Sac Bee.",
    "She survived long enough for rescue but her son didn't.",
    "The Sacramento Bee has a good article on [death by GPS](http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html) syndrome, in which visitors to a place like Death Valley arrive by car or SUV and follow their GPS units onto abandoned tracks marked on the electronic map as passable roads."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Two groups of sufferers are mentioned, four Germans and a mother and her boy.",
    "The Sacramento Bee has a good article on [death by GPS](http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html) syndrome, in which visitors to a place like Death Valley arrive by car or SUV and follow their GPS units onto abandoned tracks marked on the electronic map as passable roads."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "While people have always gotten themselves lost, it's easy to see how this happens even quicker with GPS units lacking current road information:",
    "1. Regardless of what the \"road\" is like in the real world, the map functions on these direct the driver onto whichever road appears to provide the shortest distance between origin and destination;",
    "The Sacramento Bee has a good article on [death by GPS](http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html) syndrome, in which visitors to a place like Death Valley arrive by car or SUV and follow their GPS units onto abandoned tracks marked on the electronic map as passable roads."
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  {
   "url": "https://insideedition.com/22400-after-woman-gets-stuck-in-desert-for-5-days-how-to-avoid-being-led-astray",
   "title": "After Woman Gets Stuck in Desert for 5 Days, How to Avoid Being Led Astray By Your GPS",
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   "location": "Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States",
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   "outcome": "She ran out of gas and was stranded for five days in the desert before she was finally rescued.",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# After Woman Gets Stuck in Desert for 5 Days, How to Avoid Being Led Astray By Your GPS",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# After Woman Gets Stuck in Desert for 5 Days, How to Avoid Being Led Astray By Your GPS",
    "[She ran out of gas](http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/22382-woman-stranded-in-grand-canyon-for-5-days-recorded-tearful-messages-to-family-before-rescue) and was stranded for five days in the desert before she was finally rescued."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# After Woman Gets Stuck in Desert for 5 Days, How to Avoid Being Led Astray By Your GPS",
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   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Takes Couple On A Deadly Scenic Route",
    "In March of 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left Penticton, British Columbia, in their Chevrolet Astro Van."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Takes Couple On A Deadly Scenic Route",
    "In March of 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left Penticton, British Columbia, in their Chevrolet Astro Van.",
    "Rita would later tell rescuers that they tried to use their GPS to find Mountain City, Nevada, but the device led them onto a dangerous and remote road high in the desert mountains."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": null,
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grunge.com/762177/terrifying-real-life-examples-of-death-by-gps",
   "title": "Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One 6-year-old boy died of dehydration, mother survived",
   "people": "A 6-year-old boy named Carlos and his mother Alicia Sanchez",
   "navigation": "GPS guided Sanchez down the wrong road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A camping trip turns deadly for a lost little boy",
    "One such journey turned fatal for a 6-year-old boy named Carlos who got lost in Death Valley with his mother Alicia Sanchez in 2009 (via [Method Shop](https://methodshop.com/death-by-gps/))."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A camping trip turns deadly for a lost little boy",
    "According to [NPR,](https://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion) Death Valley, California takes its name from the perilous backroads that sent one wagon train into oblivion on an ill-fated journey to find a shortcut."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A camping trip turns deadly for a lost little boy",
    "Sadly, the 6-year-old little boy died of dehydration before the park ranger discovered the pair, slumped and thirsty in the throes of the desert heat.",
    "The mother survived to tell the tale, but her life will forever be imprinted by this tragedy."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A camping trip turns deadly for a lost little boy",
    "One such journey turned fatal for a 6-year-old boy named Carlos who got lost in Death Valley with his mother Alicia Sanchez in 2009 (via [Method Shop](https://methodshop.com/death-by-gps/))."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A camping trip turns deadly for a lost little boy",
    "It began with one wrong turn, as the GPS guided Sanchez down the wrong road."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grunge.com/762177/terrifying-real-life-examples-of-death-by-gps",
   "title": "Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
   "incident_date": "2015-03",
   "location": "Lake County, Indiana, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Wife 51 killed, 64-year-old husband survived, vehicle plummeted nearly 40 feet in a fiery crash",
   "people": "Iftikhar Hussain and his wife",
   "navigation": "Navigation system suggested taking the Cline Avenue Bridge which was closed",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A couple drives right off an out-of-order bridge",
    "Another tragic event that began as a simple wrong turn took place in March of 2015 when a man by the name of Iftikhar Hussain fell victim to misinformation fed to him via GPS navigation (via [Method Shop](https://methodshop.com/death-by-gps/))."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A couple drives right off an out-of-order bridge",
    "Hussain had taken his wife and his Nissan Sentra on a drive through Lake County, Indiana which would soon have deadly consequences."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A couple drives right off an out-of-order bridge",
    "Still, trusting the GPS, Hussain proceeded to drive off the ramp of the dilapidated [bridge](https://www.grunge.com/456869/the-deadliest-bridge-disasters-in-history/), plummeting nearly 40 feet, the journey ending in a fiery crash.",
    "Hussain, 64, survived the incident but his wife, 51, did not."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A couple drives right off an out-of-order bridge",
    "Another tragic event that began as a simple wrong turn took place in March of 2015 when a man by the name of Iftikhar Hussain fell victim to misinformation fed to him via GPS navigation (via [Method Shop](https://methodshop.com/death-by-gps/)).",
    "Hussain had taken his wife and his Nissan Sentra on a drive through Lake County, Indiana which would soon have deadly consequences."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## A couple drives right off an out-of-order bridge",
    "While en route, the navigation system suggested the couple take the Cline Avenue Bridge."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://grunge.com/762177/terrifying-real-life-examples-of-death-by-gps",
   "title": "Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Northern Elko County, Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Albert Chretien died, Rita Chretien survived after being stranded for nearly two months",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien",
   "navigation": "Navigation system instructed them to travel high into the desert mountains and canyons",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## Route goes from scenic to deadly for one ill-fated couple",
    "In 2011 a case of death by GPS took place along the scenic route in a lush region of Northern Elko County, Nevada (per [CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/body-of-missing-b-c-man-albert-chretien-found-in-nevada-1.1209874))."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## Route goes from scenic to deadly for one ill-fated couple",
    "In 2011 a case of death by GPS took place along the scenic route in a lush region of Northern Elko County, Nevada (per [CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/body-of-missing-b-c-man-albert-chretien-found-in-nevada-1.1209874))."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## Route goes from scenic to deadly for one ill-fated couple",
    "Their efforts to take the scenic route guided by the GPS ended catastrophically when the navigation system instructed them to travel high into the desert mountains and canyons. According to [Method Shop](https://methodshop.com/death-by-gps/), their minivan subsequently malfunctioned, rendering them stranded in the remote mountainside, inciting a two-year, multi-city search for Albert that ultimately ended in them recovering his remains. Miraculously, his wife, Rita Chretien, survived for nearly two months in the isolated mountain region on a diet consisting mostly of snow, trail mix, and small pieces of candy (via [Oregon Live](https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2012/10/missing_canadian_businessman_a.html))."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## Route goes from scenic to deadly for one ill-fated couple",
    "When Albert and Rita Chretien departed from their Penticton, British Columbia home in their Chevrolet Astro minivan, they anticipated an adventurous road trip through rural Nevada that would end in them attending a Vegas convention."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Terrifying Real-Life Examples Of Death By GPS",
    "## Route goes from scenic to deadly for one ill-fated couple",
    "Their efforts to take the scenic route guided by the GPS ended catastrophically when the navigation system instructed them to travel high into the desert mountains and canyons."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/05/missing_canadian_couple_experts_say_always_pair_gps_with_paper_map_realize_technology_not_infallible.html",
   "title": "Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
   "incident_date": "2011-03-19",
   "location": "Elko County, Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Van stuck in a gully; husband missing and presumed dead; wife rescued after 7 1/2 weeks",
   "people": "Albert Chr\u00e9tien and his wife Rita Chr\u00e9tien",
   "navigation": "GPS unit did not tell him the road dipped and twisted into a nightmare of steep-walled sagebrush canyons and snow-covered mountains",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "Canadian businessman Albert Chr\u00e9tien probably was trying to shave a few miles off a road trip to a Las Vegas trade show March 19 when he turned off Idaho 51 at Grasmere."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "ELKO, Nev. -- Finding shortcuts is why many travelers buy GPS units.",
    "The Chr\u00e9tiens' two-wheel-drive van lost traction and skidded in the dark into a gully in the middle of a national forest in Nevada just over the Idaho border."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "With the weather worsening, the 59-year-old Penticton, B.C., resident walked into the wilderness three days later, carrying a blanket, water, trail mix and his GPS unit, hoping to find help.",
    "Rita Chr\u00e9tien remained with the van and was rescued -- starving, dehydrated and cold -- 7 1/2 weeks later on May 6."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "Canadian businessman Albert Chr\u00e9tien probably was trying to shave a few miles off a road trip to a Las Vegas trade show March 19 when he turned off Idaho 51 at Grasmere.",
    "With his wife Rita asleep beside him in their van, he swung onto a rough high-desert road absent from most maps."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "Chr\u00e9tien's GPS unit didn't tell him the road dipped and twisted into a nightmare of steep-walled sagebrush canyons and snow-covered mountains rearing almost 11,000 feet into the sky."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/05/missing_canadian_couple_experts_say_always_pair_gps_with_paper_map_realize_technology_not_infallible.html",
   "title": "Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, Owlshead Mountains, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep Cherokee buried in hot sand, son Carlos died, mother Alicia Sanchez rescued after five days",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son, Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS used to go 20 miles down a remote deadend road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "A similar tragedy befell 28-year-old Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son, Carlos in August 2009 in Death Valley National Park, he said."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "A similar tragedy befell 28-year-old Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son, Carlos in August 2009 in Death Valley National Park, he said.",
    "The Las Vegas nurse used her GPS to go 20 miles down a remote deadend road on the south side of Death Valley's Owlshead Mountains before burying her Jeep Cherokee to the axles in hot sand."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "The Las Vegas nurse used her GPS to go 20 miles down a remote deadend road on the south side of Death Valley's Owlshead Mountains before burying her Jeep Cherokee to the axles in hot sand.",
    "Mother and son quickly exhausted their water, and Carlos died after telling her he was \"speaking to my grandfather in heaven.\"",
    "A park ranger rescued Sanchez."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "A similar tragedy befell 28-year-old Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son, Carlos in August 2009 in Death Valley National Park, he said."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "The Las Vegas nurse used her GPS to go 20 miles down a remote deadend road on the south side of Death Valley's Owlshead Mountains before burying her Jeep Cherokee to the axles in hot sand."
   ]
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   "url": "https://oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/05/missing_canadian_couple_experts_say_always_pair_gps_with_paper_map_realize_technology_not_infallible.html",
   "title": "Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
   "incident_date": "2010",
   "location": "La Serena Reservoir, near Capilla, Spain",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Peugeot 306 plunged into reservoir, driver died",
   "people": "A 37-year-old man",
   "navigation": "GPS signal showing a road as usable",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "The Spanish Red Cross last fall reported that a 37-year-old man died when he drove into La Serena Reservoir near the town of Capilla while en route to Seville."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "The Spanish Red Cross last fall reported that a 37-year-old man died when he drove into La Serena Reservoir near the town of Capilla while en route to Seville.",
    "He was following his GPS signal on a dark night when his Peugeot 306 plunged straight into one of Spain's largest reservoirs."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "The Spanish Red Cross last fall reported that a 37-year-old man died when he drove into La Serena Reservoir near the town of Capilla while en route to Seville.",
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   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "The Spanish Red Cross last fall reported that a 37-year-old man died when he drove into La Serena Reservoir near the town of Capilla while en route to Seville."
   ],
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    "# Missing Canadian couple: Experts say always pair GPS with paper map, realize technology not infallible",
    "He was following his GPS signal on a dark night when his Peugeot 306 plunged straight into one of Spain's largest reservoirs.",
    "\"There was no explanation of why the GPS still showed the road as usable,\" said a news story in Great Britain's Guardian."
   ]
  },
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   "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37169468",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "car went over a cliff, almost plunged to his death, did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "English man",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37169468",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Moreton Bay, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "drove their rental car into Moreton Bay, did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37169468",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2022-09-20",
   "location": "North Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "vehicle dropped into a river, killed",
   "people": "Phil Paxson",
   "navigation": "GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge, did not contain up-to-date maps",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "He was following directions from his GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge [22].",
    "In the second case, the GPS did not contain up-to-date maps, as the bridge the motorist was directed to had collapsed almost 8 years ago."
   ]
  },
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   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": "2011-03",
   "location": "Jarbidge mountains, Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Albert Chretien died, Rita Chretien survived after being rescued seven weeks later",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Through the night, it carried them higher into the [Jarbidge mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarbidge_Mountains), deeper into the back country."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Rita Chretien, 56 years old, with no outdoor experience and next to no provisions, had somehow survived for seven weeks in the wilderness, a trial that would have taxed the most hardened survivalist.",
    "Albert\u2019s remains had been found some seven miles from the van."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": "2009-summer",
   "location": "Death Valley national park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Alicia Sanchez survived, her six-year-old son Carlos died",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son, Carlos",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The rangers at [Death Valley national park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm) in California call it \u201cdeath by GPS\u201d."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "\u201cShe came running toward me and collapsed in my arms,\u201d the ranger wrote in a report.",
    "Her son had died."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
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   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car driven into the ocean, occupants uninjured",
   "people": "Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Most death by GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths \u2013 or even serious injury."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Most death by GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths \u2013 or even serious injury."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Most death by GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths \u2013 or even serious injury."
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   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW driven down a narrow, steep path and nearly over a cliff, unharmed",
   "people": "A man driving a BMW",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Most death by GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths \u2013 or even serious injury."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Most death by GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths \u2013 or even serious injury."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "navigation_evidence": null
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   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Bellevue, Washington, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car driven into a lake, unharmed",
   "people": "A woman",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Most death by GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths \u2013 or even serious injury."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": "2015-03",
   "location": "Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, Indiana, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car plunged off bridge, Iftikhar managed to escape, Zohra died from burns",
   "people": "Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In March 2015, Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain were driving from their home in Chicago to Indiana to visit family."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "As Iftikhar approached a bridge that spanned the [Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Harbor_and_Ship_Canal), he ignored orange cones, Road Closed signs, and other deterrents meant to keep cars away, since the bridge had been closed for repairs since 2009."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The car plunged off the bridge, dropping nearly 40ft to the ground near the water.",
    "Iftikhar managed to escape before it burst into flames.",
    "[Zohra died from her burns](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-watches-wife-burn-alive-5435575)."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In March 2015, Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain were driving from their home in Chicago to Indiana to visit family."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
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   "url": "https://pressenterprise.com/2011/09/08/inland-gps-errors-can-have-dire-consequences",
   "title": "INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
   "incident_date": "July last year",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued after two days; unharmed",
   "people": "Donna Cooper, 63, her daughter Gina, and a friend",
   "navigation": "handheld GPS, leading them down paths instead of roads and in circles",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "The trio became lost on side roads after visiting Scotty\u2019s Castle and turned on their handheld GPS, trying to find their way home to Pahrump, Nev., in July last year."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "A summer day trip to Death Valley National Park nearly turned deadly for retired farmer Donna Cooper and her companions, who meandered over unmarked, dirt roads at the behest of their navigation system before running out of gas and becoming stranded far from civilization."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "After two days, a helicopter rescue crew located Cooper, her daughter, Gina, and her friend."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "A summer day trip to Death Valley National Park nearly turned deadly for retired farmer Donna Cooper and her companions, who meandered over unmarked, dirt roads at the behest of their navigation system before running out of gas and becoming stranded far from civilization.",
    "\u201cAll the places it was saying take a right or a left, they weren\u2019t roads, they were paths.",
    "After two days, a helicopter rescue crew located Cooper, her daughter, Gina, and her friend."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "The trio became lost on side roads after visiting Scotty\u2019s Castle and turned on their handheld GPS, trying to find their way home to Pahrump, Nev., in July last year.",
    "\u201cAll the places it was saying take a right or a left, they weren\u2019t roads, they were paths."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://pressenterprise.com/2011/09/08/inland-gps-errors-can-have-dire-consequences",
   "title": "INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Mojave Desert near Victorville, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued before collision; unharmed",
   "people": "An unnamed woman",
   "navigation": "GPS, giving wrong directions causing a wrong turn into the darkened Mojave Desert near Victorville",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "Two months ago, a woman following directions on her GPS from Las Vegas to Los Angeles took a wrong turn in the darkened Mojave Desert near Victorville and got stuck on railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "Two months ago, a woman following directions on her GPS from Las Vegas to Los Angeles took a wrong turn in the darkened Mojave Desert near Victorville and got stuck on railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "A San Bernardino County sheriff\u2019s helicopter responding to her call for help located the woman\u2019s car 50 yards off Interstate 15, and deputies who drove alongside the train with lights and sirens were able to prevent a collision."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "Two months ago, a woman following directions on her GPS from Las Vegas to Los Angeles took a wrong turn in the darkened Mojave Desert near Victorville and got stuck on railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "Two months ago, a woman following directions on her GPS from Las Vegas to Los Angeles took a wrong turn in the darkened Mojave Desert near Victorville and got stuck on railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://pressenterprise.com/2011/09/08/inland-gps-errors-can-have-dire-consequences",
   "title": "INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One 6-year-old boy killed; mother survived and was rescued",
   "people": "A 6-year-old Las Vegas boy and his mother, Alicia Sanchez, then 28",
   "navigation": "GPS, directing them down an unmarked dirt road that was closed",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "In August 2009, a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy died in Death Valley\u2019s intense heat after he and his mother became stranded while following GPS directions on an overnight camping trip."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "In August 2009, a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy died in Death Valley\u2019s intense heat after he and his mother became stranded while following GPS directions on an overnight camping trip."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "In August 2009, a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy died in Death Valley\u2019s intense heat after he and his mother became stranded while following GPS directions on an overnight camping trip.",
    "The two survived for five days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwiches after their Jeep Cherokee became mired in sand."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "In August 2009, a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy died in Death Valley\u2019s intense heat after he and his mother became stranded while following GPS directions on an overnight camping trip.",
    "The mother, Alicia Sanchez, then 28, couldn\u2019t get a cellphone signal and didn\u2019t have a paper map."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# INLAND: GPS errors can have dire consequences",
    "In August 2009, a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy died in Death Valley\u2019s intense heat after he and his mother became stranded while following GPS directions on an overnight camping trip.",
    "They ended up 25 miles down an unmarked dirt road in the southwest corner of the park, about 20 miles east of the remote town of Trona."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://geographyrealm.com/why-do-we-blindly-follow-our-gps",
   "title": "Why Do We Blindly Follow Our GPS?",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "North Stradbroke Island and mainland, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "car got stuck, abandoned, and towed; three tourists unharmed",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS told them to reach North Stradbroke Island but forgot to mention the 9 miles of water",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://www.geographyrealm.com/unique-features-australasian-geographic-zone/) drove into the Pacific Ocean after their GPS told them to."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://www.geographyrealm.com/unique-features-australasian-geographic-zone/) drove into the Pacific Ocean after their GPS told them to.",
    "The students were trying to reach North Stradbroke Island but the GPS forgot to mention the 9 miles of water between it and the mainland."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "After their car got stuck, they had to abandon it and catch a ride with a tow truck."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://www.geographyrealm.com/unique-features-australasian-geographic-zone/) drove into the Pacific Ocean after their GPS told them to."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://www.geographyrealm.com/unique-features-australasian-geographic-zone/) drove into the Pacific Ocean after their GPS told them to.",
    "The students were trying to reach North Stradbroke Island but the GPS forgot to mention the 9 miles of water between it and the mainland."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://geographyrealm.com/why-do-we-blindly-follow-our-gps",
   "title": "Why Do We Blindly Follow Our GPS?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Bergun, Switzerland",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "van stranded on top of a mountain, rescued by a rescue helicopter",
   "people": "Robert Zeigler",
   "navigation": "GPS sent him up a goat track by mistake",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Getting stranded on the top of a mountain after following GPS directions",
    "Robert Zeigler found himself stranded near the top of a mountain near Bergun, Switzerland."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Driving into the Pacific Ocean based on GPS directions",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://www.geographyrealm.com/unique-features-australasian-geographic-zone/) drove into the Pacific Ocean after their GPS told them to."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Getting stranded on the top of a mountain after following GPS directions",
    "The path became so steep and narrow that Zeigler\u2019s van was not able to go forward or backward.",
    "He called emergency services, and a rescue helicopter had to carry the van to safety."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Getting stranded on the top of a mountain after following GPS directions",
    "Robert Zeigler found himself stranded near the top of a mountain near Bergun, Switzerland."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Getting stranded on the top of a mountain after following GPS directions",
    "He claimed that his GPS sent him up a goat track by mistake."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://geographyrealm.com/why-do-we-blindly-follow-our-gps",
   "title": "Why Do We Blindly Follow Our GPS?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico",
   "hazard": "cliff",
   "outcome": "nearly drove off a 200-foot cliff, unharmed",
   "people": "Norman Sussman",
   "navigation": "GPS gave him an alternative route to avoid heavy traffic and sent him up a winding mountain road ending at a guardrail and cliff",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Nearly driving off a cliff after following GPS directions",
    "Outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Norman Sussman nearly drove off a cliff after his GPS gave him an alternative route to avoid heavy traffic on the way home."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Nearly driving off a cliff after following GPS directions",
    "His GPS sent him up a winding mountain road which ended at a guardrail and a 200-foot cliff."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Nearly driving off a cliff after following GPS directions",
    "Outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Norman Sussman nearly drove off a cliff after his GPS gave him an alternative route to avoid heavy traffic on the way home."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Nearly driving off a cliff after following GPS directions",
    "Outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Norman Sussman nearly drove off a cliff after his GPS gave him an alternative route to avoid heavy traffic on the way home."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "Nearly driving off a cliff after following GPS directions",
    "Outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Norman Sussman nearly drove off a cliff after his GPS gave him an alternative route to avoid heavy traffic on the way home.",
    "His GPS sent him up a winding mountain road which ended at a guardrail and a 200-foot cliff."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://geographyrealm.com/why-do-we-blindly-follow-our-gps",
   "title": "Why Do We Blindly Follow Our GPS?",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Nevada wilderness",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "husband Albert did not survive, wife Rita was found alive after seven-and-a-half weeks",
   "people": "a Canadian couple, Rita Chretian and her husband Albert",
   "navigation": "GPS to a dead end",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple got lost in the Nevada wilderness after following their GPS to a dead end."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple got lost in the Nevada wilderness after following their GPS to a dead end."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple got lost in the Nevada wilderness after following their GPS to a dead end."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "Rita Chretian stayed with their vehicle while her husband Albert went for help.",
    "Rita was found alive after seven-and-a-half weeks but her husband did not survive."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple got lost in the Nevada wilderness after following their GPS to a dead end.",
    "Rita Chretian stayed with their vehicle while her husband Albert went for help."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple got lost in the Nevada wilderness after following their GPS to a dead end."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://geographyrealm.com/why-do-we-blindly-follow-our-gps",
   "title": "Why Do We Blindly Follow Our GPS?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "California's Death Valley",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "stuck for five days, son did not survive, mother barely survived",
   "people": "a mother and son",
   "navigation": "guided them onto an abandoned mining road",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In a similar situation, a mother and son went on a camping trip in California\u2019s Death Valley.",
    "They ended up stuck for five days on an abandoned mining road."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In a similar situation, a mother and son went on a camping trip in California\u2019s Death Valley."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "They ended up stuck for five days on an abandoned mining road.",
    "The mother barely survived while her son did not."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In a similar situation, a mother and son went on a camping trip in California\u2019s Death Valley."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Around the world, there is ample evidence that GPS navigation is not foolproof. Consider the following examples:",
    "The dark side of following GPS directions",
    "In a similar situation, a mother and son went on a camping trip in California\u2019s Death Valley.",
    "They ended up stuck for five days on an abandoned mining road."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "almost plunged to his death, did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "an English man",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
   ],
   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Moreton Bay, Australia",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "drove rental car into Moreton Bay, did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2013",
   "location": "Zagreb, Croatia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "reported missing, found alive two days later",
   "people": "a Belgian woman and her son",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2013, a Belgian woman was reported missing by her son."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "She was found alive two days later, 901 miles away in Zagreb, Croatia [5]."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2013, a Belgian woman was reported missing by her son.",
    "She was found alive two days later, 901 miles away in Zagreb, Croatia [5]."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2013, a Belgian woman was reported missing by her son."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2022-09-20",
   "location": "North Carolina, USA",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "killed when his vehicle dropped into a river",
   "people": "Phil Paxson",
   "navigation": "GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge with out-of-date maps",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "He was following directions from his GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge [22].",
    "In the second case, the GPS did not contain up-to-date maps, as the bridge the motorist was directed to had collapsed almost 8 years ago."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://india.com/viral/suv-driver-blindly-follows-gps-falls-in-to-icy-lake-2863818",
   "title": "SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Three occupants on board escaped unharmed; car sank and was pulled from the lake",
   "people": "Unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass and two passengers",
   "navigation": "Waze GPS app advised to go straight",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "In an alarming incident, a man blindly followed GPS and drove his SUV into a frozen lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, USA.",
    "My friend Tara Guertin\u2019s Jeep being pulled out of Lake Champlain today."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
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    "Reportedly, the car initially slid but the ice of the lake quickly cracked and the car sank."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "The car also had two passengers on board and all three escaped unharmed.",
    "the unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \u201cfollowed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\u201d the report read."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "the unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \u201cfollowed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\u201d the report read.",
    "Guertin also revealed that the driver was using the Google-owned GPS app called Waze."
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   "url": "https://express.co.uk/travel/articles/1047271/google-maps-arizona-grand-canyon-lost-woman",
   "title": "Google Maps: Wrong directions leave young woman stranded in Arizona desert for FIVE days",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Amber was stranded in the desert for five days, ran out of petrol, but was eventually airlifted to hospital and treated for exposure, dehydration and sunburn.",
   "people": "Amber VanHecke, a 24-year-old Texas student",
   "navigation": "Google Maps led her down a road that didn't exist.",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Google Maps: Woman stranded for FIVE days in Arizona desert when GPS gave wrong directions",
    "Amber VanHecke, a 24-year-old Texas student in the [USA](/latest/united-states), headed off on a road trip in Arizona's Grand Canyon using Google Maps for directions.",
    "Amber had inputted Havasu Falls Trail Head in Supai, Arizona, into her Google Maps."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Google Maps: Woman stranded for FIVE days in Arizona desert when GPS gave wrong directions",
    "However, the GPS led her down a road that didn't exist and Amber ran out of petrol en route - leaving her stranded in the desert for five whole days.",
    "Amber was airlifted to hospital where she had to be treated for exposure, dehydration and sunburn."
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    "Google Maps: Woman stranded for FIVE days in Arizona desert when GPS gave wrong directions",
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    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Doesn\u2019t Know That The Bridge Is Out",
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    "### GPS Doesn\u2019t Know That The Bridge Is Out",
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    "### GPS Leads Oregon Man On His Last The Fishing Trip",
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    "### GPS Leads Oregon Man On His Last The Fishing Trip",
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    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "## Death By GPS Death Valley Detour",
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    "## Death By GPS Death Valley Detour",
    "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos were only lost for five days, but in([Amazon](https://methodshop.com/amazon) link) [Death Valley National Park](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=death+valley+national+park&sprefix=Death+Valley+National+Park,aps,700&crid=C1A9DKOQ9CA6&linkCode=ll2&tag=methodshopcom&linkId=2fbc4b1ec21da29fce9b7f9ed1191ef1), that\u2019s more than enough time to die."
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    "## Death By GPS Death Valley Detour",
    "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos were only lost for five days, but in([Amazon](https://methodshop.com/amazon) link) [Death Valley National Park](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=death+valley+national+park&sprefix=Death+Valley+National+Park,aps,700&crid=C1A9DKOQ9CA6&linkCode=ll2&tag=methodshopcom&linkId=2fbc4b1ec21da29fce9b7f9ed1191ef1), that\u2019s more than enough time to die."
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   "url": "https://iiab.live/kiwix/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2023-05/A/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "## Incidents",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "## Incidents",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "## Incidents",
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   "url": "https://iiab.live/kiwix/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2023-05/A/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "INTRODUCTION"
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    "Interestingly, the latter family thought \nthat their in-car GPS device was suggesting a significant \nshortcut and followed its instructions as a result, a point we \nreturn to later.",
    "Understanding \u201cDeath by GPS\u201d: A Systematic  \n\nStudy of Catastrophic Incidents Associated  \n\nwith Personal Navigation Technologies",
    "Stranding Risk Increases with Dirt Roads, Bad Weather, and \nEspecially Both at the Same Time"
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   "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/woman-blindly-follows-sat-nav-drives-car-into-lake-1560283",
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    "Meanwhile, her car, a [Toyota](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/topics/toyota) Yaris, sank completely underwater, prompting the local coastguard to issue an alert warning boats not to approach the harbour in case they accidentally ran into the submerged car.",
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    "Other incidents have proved that GPS satnav errors can prove deadly, such as in Indiana, US, where a man following a GPS accidentally [drove his car 37ft off a demolished bridge](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gps-drowning-accident-family-dassi-gueye-compensated-death-spains-la-serena-reservoir-1515498) in March 2015, killing his wife, who was a passenger."
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    "Other incidents have proved that GPS satnav errors can prove deadly, such as in Indiana, US, where a man following a GPS accidentally [drove his car 37ft off a demolished bridge](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gps-drowning-accident-family-dassi-gueye-compensated-death-spains-la-serena-reservoir-1515498) in March 2015, killing his wife, who was a passenger."
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    "Other incidents have proved that GPS satnav errors can prove deadly, such as in Indiana, US, where a man following a GPS accidentally [drove his car 37ft off a demolished bridge](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gps-drowning-accident-family-dassi-gueye-compensated-death-spains-la-serena-reservoir-1515498) in March 2015, killing his wife, who was a passenger."
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    "Other incidents have proved that GPS satnav errors can prove deadly, such as in Indiana, US, where a man following a GPS accidentally [drove his car 37ft off a demolished bridge](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gps-drowning-accident-family-dassi-gueye-compensated-death-spains-la-serena-reservoir-1515498) in March 2015, killing his wife, who was a passenger."
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   "url": "https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/death-by-gps.455672",
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    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat.",
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    "\"She turned down a wrong road,\" Nattrass said in a recent interview. \"She said she was following her GPS unit.\""
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/death-by-gps.455672",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "1996-07",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Four people killed (two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10)",
   "people": "Four German tourists \u2013 two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10",
   "navigation": "GPS not explicitly stated for this incident, but referenced in the context of the article's discussion on deaths in Death Valley",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "No disaster makes that point more tragically than the disappearance of four German tourists \u2013 two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10 \u2013 whose rental van became stuck on a remote road in Death Valley during an intense heat wave in July 1996 and who were never heard from again."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "No disaster makes that point more tragically than the disappearance of four German tourists \u2013 two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10 \u2013 whose rental van became stuck on a remote road in Death Valley during an intense heat wave in July 1996 and who were never heard from again."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "No disaster makes that point more tragically than the disappearance of four German tourists \u2013 two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10 \u2013 whose rental van became stuck on a remote road in Death Valley during an intense heat wave in July 1996 and who were never heard from again."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "No disaster makes that point more tragically than the disappearance of four German tourists \u2013 two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10 \u2013 whose rental van became stuck on a remote road in Death Valley during an intense heat wave in July 1996 and who were never heard from again."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "No disaster makes that point more tragically than the disappearance of four German tourists \u2013 two adults and two boys, ages 3 and 10 \u2013 whose rental van became stuck on a remote road in Death Valley during an intense heat wave in July 1996 and who were never heard from again."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/death-by-gps.455672",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": "summer",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle became stuck near a remote abandoned mine site called Lippincott; everybody survived (one person walked out 20 to 25 miles and made contact with a ranger)",
   "people": "Visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190",
   "navigation": "GPS unit; told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
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    "Death by GPS",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "Instead, the unit directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley, where they turned right onto an even rougher four-wheel-drive road and became stuck near a remote abandoned mine site called Lippincott.",
    "\"One of the healthier ones walked out, 20 to 25 miles, and made contact with one of our rangers,\" he added. \"Everybody survived, but they weren't in great shape.\""
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://india.com/viral/suv-driver-blindly-follows-gps-falls-in-to-icy-lake-2863818/amp",
   "title": "SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep Compass sank into a frozen lake, but the driver and two passengers escaped unharmed",
   "people": "an unnamed male driver of the Jeep Compass and two passengers, with vehicle owner Tara Guertin and friend Mike Czarny",
   "navigation": "Waze app, advised to go straight",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "In an alarming incident, a man blindly followed GPS and drove his SUV into a frozen lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, USA.",
    "\"My friend Tara Guertin's Jeep being pulled out of Lake Champlain today. Damn GPS!!!\" Here is the Facebook post:"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "Reportedly, the car initially slid but the ice of the lake quickly cracked and the car sank.",
    "The car also had two passengers on board and all three escaped unharmed."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "In an alarming incident, a man blindly followed GPS and drove his SUV into a frozen lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, USA.",
    "The car also had two passengers on board and all three escaped unharmed.",
    "\"I was speechless,\" vehicle owner Tara Guertin later told WCAX-3 local CBS affiliate television.",
    "the unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \"followed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\" the report read.",
    "Tara Guertin's friend Mike Czarny took to Facebook and wrote: \"My friend Tara Guertin's Jeep being pulled out of Lake Champlain today. Damn GPS!!!\" Here is the Facebook post:"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# SUV Driver Blindly Follows GPS, Falls In To Icy Lake",
    "the unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \"followed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\" the report read.",
    "Guertin also revealed that the driver was using the Google-owned GPS app called Waze."
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   "url": "https://explorethecanyon.com/grand-canyon-stranded-desert",
   "title": "Grand Canyon: Stranded in the Desert",
   "incident_date": "2026-03-10",
   "location": "desert between Havasu and the southern rim visitor center, Arizona, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "stranded in the desert for five days, rescued by helicopter, unharmed other than blisters and sun exposure",
   "people": "Amber Vanhecke, 24-year-old college student",
   "navigation": "web-based GPS; steered her onto a cross-country route and directed her into a turn that put her on a faint, washed-out dirt road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "For 24-year-old college student Amber Vanhecke, what began as a spring break road trip soon became an arduous struggle for survival.",
    "The University of North Texas student left Denton on March 10th, Arizona-bound and looking forward to [touring the Grand Canyo](https://explorethecanyon.com/tour-types/)n."
   ],
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    "For 24-year-old college student Amber Vanhecke, what began as a spring break road trip soon became an arduous struggle for survival.",
    "This time, she managed to give the dispatcher her location\u2014in the desert between Havasu and the southern rim visitor center\u2014before the connection dropped."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "For 24-year-old college student Amber Vanhecke, what began as a spring break road trip soon became an arduous struggle for survival.",
    "She would spend a total of four nights alone in the desert before her ordeal was over.",
    "Vanhecke owes her survival through the five-day stranding largely to her own foresight, having brought nearly a full week\u2019s worth of trail mix and water along on the trip.",
    "With blisters on her feet from walking, she resigned herself to the knowledge that she might not be found in time, and took up recording video messages to be sent to her loved ones in case she didn\u2019t make it.",
    "This time she was actually able to see the helicopter once she could make out its sound, although it wasn\u2019t until she heard rescuer Edgar Bissonette\u2019s voice that she knew she wasn\u2019t dreaming."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "For 24-year-old college student Amber Vanhecke, what began as a spring break road trip soon became an arduous struggle for survival.",
    "The University of North Texas student left Denton on March 10th, Arizona-bound and looking forward to [touring the Grand Canyo](https://explorethecanyon.com/tour-types/)n."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "For 24-year-old college student Amber Vanhecke, what began as a spring break road trip soon became an arduous struggle for survival.",
    "48 hours into her journey, she entered \u201cHavasu Falls Trail Head\u201d as her GPS destination\u2014and that was when the nightmare started to unfold.",
    "the navigation software steered her onto a cross-country route scarcely deserving of the term \u201croad.\u201d",
    "Later, with 35 of those miles behind her, she was directed into a turn that put her on a faint, washed-out dirt road."
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   "url": "https://timesofoman.com/article/85514-good-samaritan-braves-desert-to-rescue-3-year-old-boy-and-parents",
   "title": "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
   "incident_date": "2020-02-29",
   "location": "Sharqiyah Sands, Bidiyah, Oman",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued safely after seven hours of searching; no food, tents, blankets, or petrol left, with only a little water, but health and child's health stable and good.",
   "people": "A three-year-old boy and his parents (a foreign family)",
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "[ Energy ](/category/business-energy)** Saturday 29/February/2020 22:20 PM"
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
    "\u201cWe found them at around four o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d he said."
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
    "\u201cMy friends who worked as policemen informed me that a foreign family had been reported missing in Al Sharqiyah Sands, after the owner of the rental car office told officers that he had been trying to call the family, but their mobile phone appeared to have been switched off,\u201d recalled Al Ghelani."
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "Since so many tourists come to explore the Sharqiyah Sands, the company that had rented the vehicle to this family had installed GPS in all of their four wheelers.",
    "\u201cAs the GPS had been switched on, the owner of the vehicle was able to inform the nearest police station, which is located in Bidiyah,\u201d recalled the 27-year-old."
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   "url": "doi://10.1016/j.scijus.2023.04.005",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "cliff",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "almost plunged to his death; did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "an English man",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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  {
   "url": "doi://10.1016/j.scijus.2023.04.005",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Moreton Bay, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "drove their rental car into Moreton Bay; did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
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    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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  {
   "url": "doi://10.1016/j.scijus.2023.04.005",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2013",
   "location": "Zagreb, Croatia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "reported missing and found alive two days later, 901 miles away; did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "a Belgian woman",
   "navigation": "faulty GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2013, a Belgian woman was reported missing by her son."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "She was found alive two days later, 901 miles away in Zagreb, Croatia [5]."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2013, a Belgian woman was reported missing by her son.",
    "She was found alive two days later, 901 miles away in Zagreb, Croatia [5].",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2013, a Belgian woman was reported missing by her son."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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   "url": "doi://10.1016/j.scijus.2023.04.005",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2011-07-11",
   "location": "rural highway, Utah",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "struck by a vehicle while walking along a rural highway",
   "people": "Lauren Rosenberg of Utah",
   "navigation": "Google Maps",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "To enumerate, on July 11th, 2011, a Utah District Court dismissed a lawsuit against the company Google."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "The plaintiff, Lauren Rosenberg of Utah, was struck by a vehicle while walking along a rural highway, as instructed by Google Maps."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "The plaintiff, Lauren Rosenberg of Utah, was struck by a vehicle while walking along a rural highway, as instructed by Google Maps."
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    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "The plaintiff, Lauren Rosenberg of Utah, was struck by a vehicle while walking along a rural highway, as instructed by Google Maps."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "The plaintiff, Lauren Rosenberg of Utah, was struck by a vehicle while walking along a rural highway, as instructed by Google Maps."
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  {
   "url": "doi://10.1016/j.scijus.2023.04.005",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2022-09-20",
   "location": "river, North Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "killed when his vehicle dropped into a river",
   "people": "Phil Paxson of North Carolina",
   "navigation": "GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "Secondly, on September 20th, 2022, Phil Paxson of North Carolina was killed when his vehicle dropped into a river."
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    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "He was following directions from his GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge [22]."
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/42709121/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Bryce Canyon National Park, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Southern Utah, United States",
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   "outcome": "Trapped for two days, severe frostbite injuries for Karen Klein, her husband, and their 10-year-old son; rescued",
   "people": "Karen Klein, her husband, and their 10-year-old son (a Pennsylvania family)",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "The advice comes after a Pennsylvania family visiting Southern Utah\u2019s Bryce Canyon National Park went down a snow-covered road and became trapped for two days on their way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "The advice comes after a Pennsylvania family visiting Southern Utah\u2019s Bryce Canyon National Park went down a snow-covered road and became trapped for two days on their way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.",
    "That one wrong turn turned into a two-day nightmare and a near-death hike for Klein, resulting in frostbite injuries for Klein, her husband and their 10-year-old son."
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "When the Kleins came across a closed road leading to the Grand Canyon, their cell phone offered what looked like an easy alternate route.",
    "\"It diverted us on a forest road,\u201d Klein said.",
    "\u201cWhen we explained about the Google maps,\u201d Klein said, \u201c(The sheriff) just rolled his eyes and said it happens all the time.",
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/42709121/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
   "incident_date": "2008-08",
   "location": "Near Grosvenor Arch, southern Utah, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Lost their way, rescued",
   "people": "A California group of 13 adults and 10 kids",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and ten kids lost their way in one of southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch.",
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/42709121/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
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   "location": "Elko County, Nevada, United States",
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   "people": "A Canadian couple (husband and wife)",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple vacationing in Elko County Nevada got stuck after following their GPS to a forest service road.",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple vacationing in Elko County Nevada got stuck after following their GPS to a forest service road."
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/42709121/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
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   "location": "Southern Utah, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Got stuck; discovered by happenstance",
   "people": "An elementary teacher from Washington State",
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State trusted her GPS and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
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    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State trusted her GPS and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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    "Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State trusted her GPS and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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   "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141204192241/http:/www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS' in desert",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep Cherokee stuck up to its axles in the sand; 6-year-old boy killed (died in the 115-degree heat), mother Alicia rescued while suffering from severe dehydration",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS unit; followed a wrong road and led astray into a closed road in the wilderness area",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat.",
    "And it was down that road \u2013 on Aug. 6, 2009 \u2013 that Nattrass spotted the Jeep stuck up to its axles in the sand with SOS spelled in medical tape on the windshield."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "\"She turned down a wrong road,\" Nattrass said in a recent interview. \"She said she was following her GPS unit.\"",
    "\"Whether or not her GPS unit was showing that road, or she just saw evidence of a road, I can't tell you for sure,\" Nattrass said."
   ]
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   "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141204192241/http:/www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS' in desert",
   "incident_date": "2009-07",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Became stuck near a remote abandoned mine site called Lippincott; everybody survived after one of them walked out 20 to 25 miles to make contact with a ranger",
   "people": "Visitors arriving from the west",
   "navigation": "GPS; directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley instead of the shortest, safe, paved route",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Instead, the unit directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley, where they turned right onto an even rougher four-wheel-drive road and became stuck near a remote abandoned mine site called Lippincott.",
    "\"One of the healthier ones walked out, 20 to 25 miles, and made contact with one of our rangers,\" he added. \"Everybody survived, but they weren't in great shape.\""
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "One case happened last summer, when visitors arriving from the west on Highway 190 told their GPS to take them to Scotty's Castle, a popular tourist destination at the north end of the park, which is easily accessible by paved road."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Instead, the unit directed them over an unpaved, winding, washboard road toward Saline Valley, where they turned right onto an even rougher four-wheel-drive road and became stuck near a remote abandoned mine site called Lippincott.",
    "\"People don't realize that if they tell the unit to find the shortest route to somewhere, it's not necessarily finding the shortest, safe, paved route,\" Callagan said."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://m.timesofoman.com/article/85514-good-samaritan-braves-desert-to-rescue-3-year-old-boy-and-parents",
   "title": "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
   "incident_date": "2020-02-29",
   "location": "Sharqiyah Sands, Bidiyah, Oman",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued safely after seven hours of searching; no food, tents, blankets, or petrol left, and very little water, but health is good and child's health is stable",
   "people": "A foreign family consisting of a father, mother, and their three-year-old boy",
   "navigation": "GPS installed in the rental four-wheeler vehicle; mobile phone and GPS tracking used to share latest coordinates with police",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "[ Energy ](/category/business-energy)** Saturday 29/February/2020 22:20 PM"
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
    "\u201cWe found them at around four o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d he said."
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   "people_evidence": [
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    "\u201cMy friends who worked as policemen informed me that a foreign family had been reported missing in Al Sharqiyah Sands, after the owner of the rental car office told officers that he had been trying to call the family, but their mobile phone appeared to have been switched off,\u201d recalled Al Ghelani."
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    "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
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   "url": "http://sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS' in desert",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One 6-year-old boy killed; mother survived after severe dehydration and being stranded in the desert.",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat.",
    "\"She told me they walked 10 miles but couldn't find any help (and) had run out of water and had been drinking their own urine,\" Nattrass wrote."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.",
    "In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# 'Death by GPS' in desert",
    "\"She turned down a wrong road,\" Nattrass said in a recent interview. \"She said she was following her GPS unit.\""
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   "url": "http://sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html",
   "title": "'Death by GPS' in desert",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "southwest corner of Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
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   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS unit",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### 'Just turn around'",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "### 'Just turn around'",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### 'Just turn around'",
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   "people_evidence": [
    "### 'Just turn around'",
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   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### 'Just turn around'",
    "And according to Amber Nattrass \u2013 the ranger who found them \u2013 GPS played a role in leading the mother astray.",
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   "url": "https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2009",
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   "hazard": null,
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   "people": "an English man",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
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    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in 2009, an English man almost plunged to his death when his car went over a cliff [3]."
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    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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   "url": "https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Moreton Bay, Australia",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "did not result in critical injuries",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
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   "hazard_evidence": [
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "Like most GPS related cases, these accidents did not result in critical injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists drove their rental car into Moreton Bay while on vacation in Australia [4]."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Introduction",
    "In all three incidents travelers were led astray by faulty GPS instructions."
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   "url": "https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S135503062300028X",
   "title": "The final destination: Incorporating 'Death by GPS' into forensic and legal sciences",
   "incident_date": "2022-09-20",
   "location": "North Carolina",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "killed, 1 person killed",
   "people": "Phil Paxson",
   "navigation": "GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
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   "location_evidence": [
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    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
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    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
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   "people_evidence": [
    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
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    "## Death by GPS -Relevance to legal science",
    "He was following directions from his GPS system, which took him onto a washed-out bridge [22]."
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   "url": "https://vvdailypress.com/story/news/2011/02/21/in-death-valley-don-t/37113386007",
   "title": "In Death Valley, don\u2019t depend on GPS or phone",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
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   "outcome": "1 killed (6-year-old son Carlos), mother rescued after 5 days",
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   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-675-business-critical-thinking",
   "title": "Fish Food 675: Business Critical Thinking",
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    "## **This week\u2019s provocation: On blindly following technology**",
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   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-675-business-critical-thinking",
   "title": "Fish Food 675: Business Critical Thinking",
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    "There was the couple who drove past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge in Indiana."
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    "A man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "A man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "A man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness/42709121",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
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    "When she ran out of food and water, she ate pine twigs and drank her urine, her sister [told the Morning Call newspaper](http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/us-grand-canyon-family-found-20161224-story.html).",
    "Kane County Sheriff Tracy Glover [discovered Klein inside](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=42687086&nid=148&title=do-it-or-die-trying-sister-recounts-mothers-30-hour-trek-to-help-family) a Park Service cabin Christmas Eve morning."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "Karen Klein and her family, who were [rescued](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=42680302)[ from the North Rim](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=42680302) over the holiday weekend, said they were told it happens often.",
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness/42709121",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
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   "location": "Grosvenor Arch, southern Utah, United States",
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   "outcome": "Lost their way; unstated rescue or injury outcome.",
   "people": "A California group of 13 adults and ten kids",
   "navigation": "GPS only pointed to dirt roads that led to nowhere or dead-ended at cliff tops.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and ten kids [lost their way](http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3923674) in one of southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and ten kids [lost their way](http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3923674) in one of southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and ten kids [lost their way](http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3923674) in one of southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and ten kids [lost their way](http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3923674) in one of southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
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    "Their GPS only pointed to dirt roads that led to nowhere or dead-ended at cliff tops."
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  {
   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness/42709121",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Elko County, Nevada, United States",
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   "outcome": "The husband died while hiking for help; his wife survived seven weeks on her own.",
   "people": "A Canadian couple (husband and wife)",
   "navigation": "GPS directed them to a forest service road where they got stuck.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple [vacationing in Elko County Nevada got stuck after following their GPS](http://www.ksl.com/?sid=15483749&nid=148) to a forest service road."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple [vacationing in Elko County Nevada got stuck after following their GPS](http://www.ksl.com/?sid=15483749&nid=148) to a forest service road."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "The husband [died while hiking](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700134366/Canadian-couples-missteps-shock-Nev-town-locals.html) for help; his wife survived seven weeks on her own, eating trail mix, beef jerky and snow."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple [vacationing in Elko County Nevada got stuck after following their GPS](http://www.ksl.com/?sid=15483749&nid=148) to a forest service road."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2011, a Canadian couple [vacationing in Elko County Nevada got stuck after following their GPS](http://www.ksl.com/?sid=15483749&nid=148) to a forest service road."
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/death-by-gps-officials-warn-against-trusting-tech-in-the-wilderness/42709121",
   "title": "\u2018Death by GPS\u2019: Officials warn against trusting tech in the wilderness",
   "incident_date": "2015",
   "location": "Southern Utah, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Got stuck and was discovered by happenstance.",
   "people": "An elementary teacher from Washington State",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State [trusted her GPS](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33682007&nid=148) and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
   ],
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State [trusted her GPS](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33682007&nid=148) and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State [trusted her GPS](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33682007&nid=148) and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State [trusted her GPS](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33682007&nid=148) and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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    "SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Search and rescue teams are warning hikers to not put all of their trust in their GPS devices.",
    "In 2015, an elementary teacher from Washington State [trusted her GPS](https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33682007&nid=148) and got stuck in southern Utah and was miraculously discovered by happenstance."
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
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   "location": "Mercer Slough",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "the rental SUV died, the humans were uninjured",
   "people": "women / visitors",
   "navigation": "GPS system in this rental vehicle is named 'Never Lost'",
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    "Women escape sinking car after crashing into Mercer Slough",
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    "A local case today, though only the rental SUV died, the humans were uninjured:"
   ],
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    "Women escape sinking car after crashing into Mercer Slough",
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   ],
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    "Visitors in SUV follow GPS directions into Mercer Slough",
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   ]
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
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   "location": "Yellowstone National Park",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "survives the week / rescued",
   "people": "Wisconsin couple",
   "navigation": "navigation app",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Another couple gets stuck in the snow on a closed road, leaving Yellowstone National Park, but survives the week.",
    "Couple Missing After Yellowstone Visit Found"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Another couple gets stuck in the snow on a closed road, leaving Yellowstone National Park, but survives the week.",
    "Wunderground: Missing Wisconsin Couple Stranded for Days in Yellowstone Subzero Temps, Snow Rescued"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Billings Gazette: Wisconsin couple stuck on Beartooth Pass wrote, recorded goodbye notes before rescue",
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Another couple gets stuck in the snow on a closed road, leaving Yellowstone National Park, but survives the week. This is a wonderfully beautiful route in summer, but the GPS doesn't know about winter closures.",
    "Daily Mail UK: Couple stranded in Yellowstone for a week say navigation app was cause"
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
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   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "wife dies",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "[Driver follows GPS off disused bridge, and wife dies, police say - CNET](https://www.cnet.com/news/man-followed-gps-drove-off-disused-bridge-ramp-wife-dies-police-say/#ftag=YHF65cbda0)."
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    "[Driver follows GPS off disused bridge, and wife dies, police say - CNET](https://www.cnet.com/news/man-followed-gps-drove-off-disused-bridge-ramp-wife-dies-police-say/#ftag=YHF65cbda0)."
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    "Saw this today: [Driver follows GPS off disused bridge, and wife dies, police say - CNET](https://www.cnet.com/news/man-followed-gps-drove-off-disused-bridge-ramp-wife-dies-police-say/#ftag=YHF65cbda0)."
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
   "incident_date": "2019-12",
   "location": "Colorado, San Miguel, Telluride and through Placerville, Belmear Mountain",
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   "outcome": "rescued after 24 hours",
   "people": "A couple and their 12-year old daughter",
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    "Family rescued after 24 hours in mountains"
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    "A couple and their 12-year old daughter were driving a rental truck in Colorado and relying on GPS for directions",
    "And Google even selected a National Forest road alongside Belmear Mountain, their real (approximate) stranding location.",
    "A simple adjustment to a route near Telluride and through Placerville adds only 5 minutes to the estimated trip time"
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    "Family rescued after 24 hours in mountains"
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    "A couple and their 12-year old daughter were driving a rental truck in Colorado and relying on GPS for directions"
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    "A couple and their 12-year old daughter were driving a rental truck in Colorado and relying on GPS for directions"
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
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   "location": "SW Wash.",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "spent two days in snowbound SUV before being rescued",
   "people": "travelers",
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    "Travelers spend two days in snowbound SUV before being rescued in SW Wash. | KOMO"
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    "Travelers spend two days in snowbound SUV before being rescued in SW Wash. | KOMO"
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    "Travelers spend two days in snowbound SUV before being rescued in SW Wash. | KOMO"
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    "Two days and nights stuck in snow on a route selected by a nav app, but found safe:"
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
   "incident_date": "2021-02",
   "location": "unplowed mountain pass",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Man spends seven days stranded",
   "people": "man",
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    "Man spends seven days stranded after his GPS directed him to an unplowed mountain pass"
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    "Man spends seven days stranded after his GPS directed him to an unplowed mountain pass"
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    "Man spends seven days stranded after his GPS directed him to an unplowed mountain pass"
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    "Man spends seven days stranded after his GPS directed him to an unplowed mountain pass"
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    "Man spends seven days stranded after his GPS directed him to an unplowed mountain pass"
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
   "incident_date": "2021-11",
   "location": "Idaho forest, Panhandle National Forest, north Idaho, Solitaire Saddle",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One died of exposure (hypothermia) while walking out for help, while the other stayed in the car and survived",
   "people": "Oregon mom and daughter / elderly woman and daughter",
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    "Hunter finds missing Oregon mom dead, daughter alive in Idaho forest",
    "Elderly woman dies, daughter found alive after getting stranded in Panhandle National Forest, deputies say"
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    "Hunter finds missing Oregon mom dead, daughter alive in Idaho forest",
    "Elderly woman dies, daughter found alive after getting stranded in Panhandle National Forest, deputies say",
    "I don't find the specific location on a map, but the particular forest is in north Idaho, stretching east of Coeur 'd Alene to the Montana border, and mostly north of I-90.",
    "PS. Solitaire Saddle is pinned on this map. The incident was in this general area."
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    "Yet another lost-by-GPS case. One died of exposure (hypothermia) while walking out for help, while the other stayed in the car and survived:"
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    "Hunter finds missing Oregon mom dead, daughter alive in Idaho forest",
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    "Yet another lost-by-GPS case. One died of exposure (hypothermia) while walking out for help, while the other stayed in the car and survived:"
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   "url": "https://newsbreak.com/cdllife-2245284/4770175703494-chp-says-truck-driver-ignored-signs-and-followed-gps-onto-prohibited-sonora-pass",
   "title": "CHP says truck driver ignored signs and followed GPS onto prohibited Sonora Pass - NewsBreak",
   "incident_date": "2026-07-14",
   "location": "Sonora Pass, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Semi truck became stuck, blocking both lanes",
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    "Sonora Pass was shut down on Tuesday after a semi truck driver followed GPS directions and became stuck, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).",
    "On July 14, 2026, [**CHP\u2019s Bridgeport Division**](https://www.facebook.com/CHPBridgeport/posts/pfbid02wHteWkmJ322SEDpDjzYGTUEf7yd3NWi9ETE6zo1m4MnREfnRGHghBkqyuH19UQSml) reported that a semi truck driver \u201cignored numerous signs and warnings because his GPS said it was okay to take this route.\u201d",
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    "Sonora Pass was shut down on Tuesday after a semi truck driver followed GPS directions and became stuck, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).",
    "According to Caltrans, State Route 108 (Sonora Pass) is closed due to the stuck truck blocking both lanes just east of Leavitt Creek Vista Point.",
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    "Sonora Pass was shut down on Tuesday after a semi truck driver followed GPS directions and became stuck, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).",
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    "Sonora Pass was shut down on Tuesday after a semi truck driver followed GPS directions and became stuck, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).",
    "On July 14, 2026, [**CHP\u2019s Bridgeport Division**](https://www.facebook.com/CHPBridgeport/posts/pfbid02wHteWkmJ322SEDpDjzYGTUEf7yd3NWi9ETE6zo1m4MnREfnRGHghBkqyuH19UQSml) reported that a semi truck driver \u201cignored numerous signs and warnings because his GPS said it was okay to take this route.\u201d",
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    "Sonora Pass was shut down on Tuesday after a semi truck driver followed GPS directions and became stuck, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).",
    "On July 14, 2026, [**CHP\u2019s Bridgeport Division**](https://www.facebook.com/CHPBridgeport/posts/pfbid02wHteWkmJ322SEDpDjzYGTUEf7yd3NWi9ETE6zo1m4MnREfnRGHghBkqyuH19UQSml) reported that a semi truck driver \u201cignored numerous signs and warnings because his GPS said it was okay to take this route.\u201d",
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   "title": "CHP says truck driver ignored signs and followed GPS onto prohibited Sonora Pass - NewsBreak",
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   "location": "Devil\u2019s Slide on the Pacific Coast Highway, San Mateo County, CA",
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   "outcome": "Car plunged more than 250 feet off a cliff; all four occupants survived the horrific crash.",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A California physician was driving a Tesla on January 2, 2023, when the car plunged more than 250 feet off a cliff.",
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    "The crash occurred on Devil\u2019s Slide, a notoriously dangerous spot on the Pacific Coast Highway.",
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    "When emergency responders arrived on the scene, they found Dharmesh A. Patel and his wife, Neha, both 41, along with their 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son.",
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   "url": "https://arynews.tv/two-men-die-in-worlds-largest-sand-desert-after-losing-gps-signals",
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   "hazard": null,
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia."
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
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    "Their bodies were found covered in sand beside their vehicle four days after they were last seen.",
    "Reports said that the Indian man and his Sudanese colleague both died of dehydration and exhaustion."
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
    "Indian media outlets reported that Mohammad Shehzad Khan, hailing from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague lost GPS signal while driving through the desert a week ago."
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
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   "url": "https://arynews.tv/two-men-die-in-worlds-largest-sand-desert-after-losing-gps-signals",
   "title": "Two men die in world\u2019s largest sand desert after losing GPS signals",
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   "location": "Kuruppanthara area of Kerala, India",
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   "outcome": "A tourist's SUV sank after being driven into a stream",
   "people": "A four-member tourist group hailing from India\u2019s Hyderabad driving an SUV",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, blindly followed and directed driver into a stream",
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
    "In May this year, a tourist\u2019s car sank after they drove it into a stream while navigating the area through Google Maps."
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
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    "Two men died after they lost GPS signals while travelling through the world\u2019s largest sand desert, called Rub\u2019 al-Khali in Saudi Arabia.",
    "The four-member tourist group hailing from India\u2019s Hyderabad were driving an SUV in Kuruppanthara area of Kerala when they drove the vehicle into a stream."
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    "The driver, not familiar with the area, blindly followed Google Maps and drove right into the water body."
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   "url": "https://its-interesting.com/2016/05/07/death-by-gps-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "Rita Chretien, fifty-six years old, with no outdoor experience and next to no provisions, had somehow survived a trial that would have taxed the most hardened survivalist.",
    "Albert\u2019s remains had been found some seven miles from the van."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Checking their roadmap, they determined the nearest town was Mountain City, Nevada, so they entered it as the destination into their GPS unit."
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   "url": "https://its-interesting.com/2016/05/07/death-by-gps-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "I saw a boy slumped in the front seat with obvious signs of death.",
    "\u201cShe came running toward me and collapsed in my arms,\u201d the ranger wrote in a report."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a twenty-eight-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her onto a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a twenty-eight-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her onto a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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  },
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   "url": "https://its-interesting.com/2016/05/07/death-by-gps-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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   "outcome": "Car driven into the ocean",
   "people": "Japanese tourists",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
   ]
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   "url": "https://its-interesting.com/2016/05/07/death-by-gps-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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   "location": "Yorkshire, England",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths\u2014or even serious injuries.",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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    "# Death by GPS",
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   "url": "https://its-interesting.com/2016/05/07/death-by-gps-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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    "# Death by GPS",
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    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian."
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   "url": "https://its-interesting.com/2016/05/07/death-by-gps-2",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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   "location": "Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, Indiana, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Zohra died from burns, Iftikhar escaped",
   "people": "Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain",
   "navigation": "Navigation system, user paying attention to it rather than the road",
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    "# Death by GPS",
    "In March 2015, Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain were driving from their home in Chicago to Indiana to visit family."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "As Iftikhar approached a bridge that spanned the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, he ignored orange cones, \u201cRoad Closed\u201d signs, and other deterrents meant to keep cars away, since the bridge had been closed for repairs since 2009."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "Iftikhar managed to escape before it burst into flames.",
    "Zohra died from her burns."
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    "# Death by GPS",
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS",
    "A local paper, citing a police investigator, reported that Iftikhar \u201cwas apparently paying more attention to the navigation system than what was in front of him.\u201d"
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   "url": "https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "location": "Jarbidge mountains, Nevada, United States",
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   "outcome": "Albert Chretien died; Rita Chretien was rescued alive after seven weeks.",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien",
   "navigation": "Magellan GPS unit, led them on to a small dirt road near an Idaho ghost town and eventually to a confusing three-way crossroads.",
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Through the night, it carried them higher into the [Jarbidge mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarbidge_Mountains), deeper into the back country."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One week after returning from her gratitude trip, she received a call from the sheriff.",
    "Albert\u2019s remains had been found some seven miles from the van."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "A few days before the trip, Albert had purchased a Magellan [GPS](https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/gps) unit for the van."
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  {
   "url": "https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "location": "Death Valley national park, California, United States",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle's Jeep buried in sand; son died; Alicia Sanchez rescued alive.",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, and her six-year-old son, Carlos",
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The rangers at [Death Valley national park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm) in California call it \u201cdeath by GPS\u201d."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "A week later, a ranger discovered Sanchez\u2019s Jeep, buried in sand up to its axles, with SOS spelled out in medical tape on the windshield."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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   "url": "https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "outcome": "Car driven into the ocean; occupants survived.",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "GPS \u201ctold us we could drive down there\u201d, one of the Japanese tourists explained."
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  {
   "url": "https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "location": "A village in Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The BMW driver echoed these words, almost verbatim: \u201cIt kept insisting the path was a road.\u201d"
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   "url": "https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "location": "Bellevue, Washington, United States",
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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  {
   "url": "https://p--wcqdvvj9a9v4o4bro4.re-cotta.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "outcome": "Car plunged off the bridge and caught fire; Zohra died from burns, Iftikhar escaped.",
   "people": "Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain",
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "As Iftikhar approached a bridge that spanned the [Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Harbor_and_Ship_Canal), he ignored orange cones, Road Closed signs, and other deterrents meant to keep cars away, since the bridge had been closed for repairs since 2009."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The car plunged off the bridge, dropping nearly 40ft to the ground near the water.",
    "Iftikhar managed to escape before it burst into flames.",
    "[Zohra died from her burns](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-watches-wife-burn-alive-5435575)."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In March 2015, Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain were driving from their home in Chicago to Indiana to visit family."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "A local paper, citing a police investigator, reported that Iftikhar \u201cwas apparently paying more attention to the navigation system than what was in front of him\u201d."
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   "url": "https://npr.org/transcripts/137646147",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2010-07",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Lost for three days; everyone survived and they were found by a search and rescue helicopter",
   "people": "Donna Cooper of Pahrump, Nevada, and her family",
   "navigation": "Nell, the GPS; led her running in circles for hours after following directions for the shortest route back home",
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    "**The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion****Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley. Now, a ranger wants to prevent cases like hers by going to the root of the problem.**",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nevada, discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "**The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion****Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley. Now, a ranger wants to prevent cases like hers by going to the root of the problem.**",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nevada, discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "**The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion****Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley. Now, a ranger wants to prevent cases like hers by going to the root of the problem.**",
    "As for Donna Cooper's family, three days after they got lost, a search and rescue helicopter found them."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "**The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion****Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley. Now, a ranger wants to prevent cases like hers by going to the root of the problem.**",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nevada, discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "**The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion****Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley. Now, a ranger wants to prevent cases like hers by going to the root of the problem.**",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked Nell, the GPS, for the shortest route back home."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml",
   "title": "5 Tragic Death By GPS Stories",
   "incident_date": "2011-03",
   "location": "desert mountains, Mountain City, Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Takes Couple On A Deadly Scenic Route",
    "In March of 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left Penticton, British Columbia, in their Chevrolet Astro Van."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Takes Couple On A Deadly Scenic Route",
    "Rita would later tell rescuers that they tried to use their GPS to find Mountain City, Nevada, but the device led them onto a dangerous and remote road high in the desert mountains."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Takes Couple On A Deadly Scenic Route",
    "In March of 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left Penticton, British Columbia, in their Chevrolet Astro Van."
   ],
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml",
   "title": "5 Tragic Death By GPS Stories",
   "incident_date": "2015-03",
   "location": "Cline Avenue, Lake County, Indiana, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Iftikhar Hussain and his wife",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Doesn\u2019t Know That The Bridge Is Out",
    "The bridge on Cline Avenue in Lake County Indiana has been closed since 2009, but in March 2015, Iftikhar Hussain\u2019s [GPS](https://methodshop.com/tag/gps) recommended it as his fastest route."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Doesn\u2019t Know That The Bridge Is Out",
    "The bridge on Cline Avenue in Lake County Indiana has been closed since 2009, but in March 2015, Iftikhar Hussain\u2019s [GPS](https://methodshop.com/tag/gps) recommended it as his fastest route."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Doesn\u2019t Know That The Bridge Is Out",
    "The car fell almost forty feet and caught fire. Iftikhar\u2019s wife who was riding as a passenger and was killed. He survived."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml",
   "title": "5 Tragic Death By GPS Stories",
   "incident_date": "2015-08",
   "location": "Oregon, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Silas Whitley",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Leads Oregon Man On His Last The Fishing Trip",
    "It was there that after a weeklong search in August of 2015, searchers finally found his truck and then his body."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Leads Oregon Man On His Last The Fishing Trip",
    "Investigators believe that on a fishing trip in **Oregon**, Silas Whitley relied too much on his GPS device and not enough on his own instincts."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "### GPS Leads Oregon Man On His Last The Fishing Trip",
    "Investigators believe that on a fishing trip in **Oregon**, Silas Whitley relied too much on his GPS device and not enough on his own instincts."
   ],
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml",
   "title": "5 Tragic Death By GPS Stories",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "## Death By GPS Death Valley Detour",
    "When a park ranger came across her incapacitated car in August 2009, the first thing Alicia said to him was, \u201cmy baby is dead.\u201d"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "## Death By GPS Death Valley Detour",
    "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos were only lost for five days, but in([Amazon](https://methodshop.com/amazon) link) [Death Valley National Park](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=death+valley+national+park&sprefix=Death+Valley+National+Park,aps,700&crid=C1A9DKOQ9CA6&linkCode=ll2&tag=methodshopcom&linkId=2fbc4b1ec21da29fce9b7f9ed1191ef1), that\u2019s more than enough time to die."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Here\u2019s a collection of tragic death by GPS stories of when bad GPS directions resulted in the death of innocent travelers.",
    "## Death By GPS Death Valley Detour",
    "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son Carlos were only lost for five days, but in([Amazon](https://methodshop.com/amazon) link) [Death Valley National Park](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=death+valley+national+park&sprefix=Death+Valley+National+Park,aps,700&crid=C1A9DKOQ9CA6&linkCode=ll2&tag=methodshopcom&linkId=2fbc4b1ec21da29fce9b7f9ed1191ef1), that\u2019s more than enough time to die."
   ],
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": "2011-03",
   "location": "Jarbidge mountains, Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Albert Chretien died; Rita Chretien was rescued alive after seven weeks",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien",
   "navigation": "Magellan GPS unit, directed them to Mountain City, Nevada, leading them on a small dirt road and a three-way crossroads into the back country",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Through the night, it carried them higher into the [Jarbidge mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarbidge_Mountains), deeper into the back country."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Rita Chretien, 56 years old, with no outdoor experience and next to no provisions, had somehow survived for seven weeks in the wilderness, a trial that would have taxed the most hardened survivalist.",
    "Albert\u2019s remains had been found some seven miles from the van."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "Checking their roadmap, they determined the nearest town was Mountain City, Nevada, so they entered it as the destination into their GPS unit."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": "2009-07",
   "location": "Death Valley national park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Son Carlos died, Alicia Sanchez rescued alive",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son, Carlos",
   "navigation": "GPS, directed her on to a vaguely defined road with no outlet for 20 miles",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The rangers at [Death Valley national park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm) in California call it \u201cdeath by GPS\u201d."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "\u201cShe came running toward me and collapsed in my arms,\u201d the ranger wrote in a report.",
    "Her son had died."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In the summer of 2009, Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, was driving through the park with her six-year-old son, Carlos, when her GPS directed her on to a vaguely defined road that she followed for 20 miles, unaware that it had no outlet."
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  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "North Stradbroke Island, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car driven into the ocean",
   "people": "Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS tracking, led them to drive straight into the Pacific Ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia [who drove their car into the ocean](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific/) while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland;"
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  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Yorkshire, England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Drove down a narrow, steep path nearly over a cliff",
   "people": "A man driving his BMW",
   "navigation": "GPS, insisted a narrow, steep path was a road",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the man who drove his BMW down a narrow, steep path in a village in Yorkshire [and nearly over a cliff](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm);"
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  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Bellevue, Washington, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Drove car into a lake",
   "people": "A woman",
   "navigation": "GPS, indicated a lake was a road",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that the GPS said was a road;"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that the GPS said was a road;"
   ],
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    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that the GPS said was a road;"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that the GPS said was a road;"
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  {
   "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block",
   "title": "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
   "incident_date": "2015-03",
   "location": "Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, Indiana, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car plunged off a bridge, Zohra died from burns, Iftikhar escaped",
   "people": "Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain",
   "navigation": "Navigation system, distracted the driver from road closed signs and barriers on a bridge",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In March 2015, Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain were driving from their home in Chicago to Indiana to visit family."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "As Iftikhar approached a bridge that spanned the [Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Harbor_and_Ship_Canal), he ignored orange cones, Road Closed signs, and other deterrents meant to keep cars away, since the bridge had been closed for repairs since 2009."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "The car plunged off the bridge, dropping nearly 40ft to the ground near the water.",
    "Iftikhar managed to escape before it burst into flames.",
    "[Zohra died from her burns](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-watches-wife-burn-alive-5435575)."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "In March 2015, Iftikhar and Zohra Hussain were driving from their home in Chicago to Indiana to visit family."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?",
    "A local paper, citing a police investigator, reported that Iftikhar \u201cwas apparently paying more attention to the navigation system than what was in front of him\u201d."
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   "url": "https://theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1455441/driver-following-gps-plunges-vehicle-into-lake-champlain.html",
   "title": "Driver Following GPS Plunges Vehicle Into Lake Champlain",
   "incident_date": "2026",
   "location": "Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "SUV sank to the bottom of Lake Champlain, occupants escaped safely, vehicle removed after more than a week",
   "people": "Friends of Tara Guertin",
   "navigation": "GPS device, followed GPS device when they got lost",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Driver Following GPS Plunges Vehicle Into Lake Champlain",
    "Tara Guertin tells WCAX-TV some of her friends borrowed her Jeep to take a trip from Connecticut to Vermont for a ski vacation earlier this month."
   ],
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    "Driver Following GPS Plunges Vehicle Into Lake Champlain",
    "Divers have removed an SUV that sank to the bottom of Lake Champlain when a motorist drove onto the frozen lake while following GPS.",
    "Tara Guertin tells WCAX-TV some of her friends borrowed her Jeep to take a trip from Connecticut to Vermont for a ski vacation earlier this month."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Driver Following GPS Plunges Vehicle Into Lake Champlain",
    "Divers have removed an SUV that sank to the bottom of Lake Champlain when a motorist drove onto the frozen lake while following GPS.",
    "Guertin\u2019s buddies were able to safely escape the sinking Jeep.",
    "But the vehicle was left in the lake for more than a week.",
    "Guertin contacted Donley\u2019s Underwater Salvage, which removed the vehicle Monday."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Driver Following GPS Plunges Vehicle Into Lake Champlain",
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    "Driver Following GPS Plunges Vehicle Into Lake Champlain",
    "Divers have removed an SUV that sank to the bottom of Lake Champlain when a motorist drove onto the frozen lake while following GPS.",
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   "url": "https://cdn.timesofoman.com/article/85514-good-samaritan-braves-desert-to-rescue-3-year-old-boy-and-parents",
   "title": "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
   "incident_date": "2020-02-29",
   "location": "Sharqiyah Sands, Bidiyah, Oman",
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   "outcome": null,
   "people": "A three-year-old boy and his parents (a foreign family)",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "Saturday 29/February/2020 22:20 PM"
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    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
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   "url": "https://thegreynomads.com.au/satnav",
   "title": "GPS, satnav, navigation, google maps, grey nomads",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "Ambalindum cattle station, Central Australian desert, Northern Territory, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver stranded in the desert without food or water; car ended up in a ditch; rescued via SOS text.",
   "people": "A 22-year-old female nurse driving solo",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Outback travellers warned over dangers of over-reliance on navigation apps",
    "Published: August 16, 2023",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Outback travellers warned over dangers of over-reliance on navigation apps",
    "The dangers of an over-reliance on navigation apps when driving in the Outback have been graphically illustrated once again after a young nurse became stranded in the Central Australian desert without food or water.",
    "The ABC reports that, instead of going on the Stuart Highway, she was directed up the Ross Highway, and across the rough dirt tracks and paddocks of the remote Ambalindum cattle station."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Outback travellers warned over dangers of over-reliance on navigation apps",
    "The dangers of an over-reliance on navigation apps when driving in the Outback have been graphically illustrated once again after a young nurse became stranded in the Central Australian desert without food or water.",
    "Luckily, after her car ended up in a ditch, the nurse managed to send an SOS text via her mobile to summon help."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Outback travellers warned over dangers of over-reliance on navigation apps",
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/gps-could-lead-you-astray-with-dire-consequences/25557081",
   "title": "GPS could lead you astray, with dire consequences",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Goblin Valley, Utah, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Motor home's driveline crippled; driver spent two days hiking out of the remote canyon; unharmed",
   "people": "Ben Stanley",
   "navigation": "GPS device that pointed him down a rutted and rock-filled road instead of a highway",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "A Park City man said he was following GPS directions along a road he thought would take him to a highway, but he has pictures that show some of the damage done to his motor home in Goblin Valley when the GPS was wrong."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "The rutted and rock-filled road eventually crippled the RV's driveline.",
    "Two days later, he hiked out of the remote canyon.",
    "\"Twenty-seven miles or so of this awful, near-death experience, we thought we weren't going to make it,\" said attorney Ben Stanley."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "\"Twenty-seven miles or so of this awful, near-death experience, we thought we weren't going to make it,\" said attorney Ben Stanley."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A Park City man said he was following GPS directions along a road he thought would take him to a highway, but he has pictures that show some of the damage done to his motor home in Goblin Valley when the GPS was wrong.",
    "The rutted and rock-filled road eventually crippled the RV's driveline."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/gps-could-lead-you-astray-with-dire-consequences/25557081",
   "title": "GPS could lead you astray, with dire consequences",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Idaho, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car wheel rims cracked, axles damaged, pushed out of alignment; all occupants survived after 27 miles of very white-knuckled driving",
   "people": "Ben Stanley and his family",
   "navigation": "GPS device that led them over a mountain goat of a road, an old goat trail that was washed out and rutted with dangerous sheer cliffs on one side",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "His GPS led him and his family over a mountain goat of a road in Idaho."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "After 27 miles of very white-knuckled driving, Stanley finally made it to the campground he was looking for.",
    "Even though there was a well-paved route, he said the GPS took him on a ride that cracked one of the car's wheel rims, damaged the axles and pushed it out of alignment."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "His GPS led him and his family over a mountain goat of a road in Idaho."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "His GPS led him and his family over a mountain goat of a road in Idaho.",
    "\"She took us on the other side of the mountain and up and over the mountain, on an old goat trail that was rushed out and rutted and really dangerous sheer cliffs on one side,\" he said."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/gps-could-lead-you-astray-with-dire-consequences/25557081",
   "title": "GPS could lead you astray, with dire consequences",
   "incident_date": "2008-08",
   "location": "Near Grosvenor Arch, Southern Utah, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Group lost their way; rescued or survived (group of 13 adults and 10 kids)",
   "people": "A California group of 13 adults and 10 kids",
   "navigation": "GPS that only pointed to dirt roads that lead to nowhere, or dead-ended at cliff tops",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and 10 kids lost their way in one of Southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
   ],
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    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and 10 kids lost their way in one of Southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
   ],
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    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and 10 kids lost their way in one of Southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
   ],
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    "In August 2008, a California group of 13 adults and 10 kids lost their way in one of Southern Utah's roughest and most remote landscapes near Grosvenor Arch."
   ],
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    "Their GPS only pointed to dirt roads that lead to nowhere, or dead-ended at cliff tops."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://cdn-3.timesofoman.com/article/85514-good-samaritan-braves-desert-to-rescue-3-year-old-boy-and-parents",
   "title": "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
   "incident_date": "2020-02-29",
   "location": "Sharqiyah Sands, Oman",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued safely after seven hours of searching; no one killed or injured",
   "people": "A three-year-old boy and his parents",
   "navigation": "installed GPS in all of their four wheelers",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "[ Energy ](/category/business-energy) ** Saturday 29/February/2020 22:20 PM",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
   ],
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    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
   ],
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    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "Since so many tourists come to explore the Sharqiyah Sands, the company that had rented the vehicle to this family had installed GPS in all of their four wheelers."
   ]
  },
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   "url": "https://hullandzimmerman.com/blog/gps-related-car-accidents",
   "title": "GPS Related Car Accidents",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Brighton, Massachusetts",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "A mother and her children",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "Consider the mother who drove her kid-filled car onto commuter rail tracks in Brighton, Massachusetts as she faithfully followed her GPS\u2019 directions."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "Consider the mother who drove her kid-filled car onto commuter rail tracks in Brighton, Massachusetts as she faithfully followed her GPS\u2019 directions.",
    "Unable to extract her mini-van from the tracks, the mother managed to get her children out of the vehicle just before a train collided with it."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
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  {
   "url": "https://hullandzimmerman.com/blog/gps-related-car-accidents",
   "title": "GPS Related Car Accidents",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Whittier, Alaska",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "Vehicle sank, man and dog struggled but got out",
   "people": "A man and his dog",
   "navigation": "GPS told him to turn right after leaving the ferry boat",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "In Whittier, Alaska, a man\u2019s GPS told him to turn right after leaving the ferry boat."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "In Whittier, Alaska, a man\u2019s GPS told him to turn right after leaving the ferry boat.",
    "Unfortunately, the man followed those directions, ending up in the harbor, struggling to get himself and his dog out of the vehicle before it sank."
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    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "Unfortunately, the man followed those directions, ending up in the harbor, struggling to get himself and his dog out of the vehicle before it sank."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "Unfortunately, the man followed those directions, ending up in the harbor, struggling to get himself and his dog out of the vehicle before it sank."
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    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
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   "url": "https://hullandzimmerman.com/blog/gps-related-car-accidents",
   "title": "GPS Related Car Accidents",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Death Valley",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "Vehicle ran out of gas, six-year-old boy died due to extreme desert temperatures",
   "people": "A mother and her six-year-old son",
   "navigation": "GPS instructions",
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    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "A mother and her six-year-old son followed GPS instructions, ending up stuck on a remote back country road in Death Valley."
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    "# GPS Related Car Accidents | Colorado Attorneys Hull & Zimmerman",
    "A mother and her six-year-old son followed GPS instructions, ending up stuck on a remote back country road in Death Valley.",
    "The vehicle ran out of gas, and the mother and son ran out of water, leading to the death of the boy due to extreme desert temperatures."
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  {
   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/3923674",
   "title": "Deputies rescue tourists lost in Kane County",
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   "location": "Kane County, Southern Utah, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One vehicle stuck in sand, others running out of gas, children and adults sick with fever and stomach flues; all 23 rescued by sheriff's deputies who delivered food, water, and gasoline and escorted them out.",
   "people": "23 men, women and children from California (convoy of four vehicles containing 13 adults and 10 children, including relative Esther Lahiji and Edwin Saghian)",
   "navigation": "GPS unit used to try to reconnect to a paved road, leading them astray into a network of dirt roads",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
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    "It was quite an ordeal in the Southern Utah wilderness for a convoy of almost two dozen tourists from California.",
    "Sheriff's deputies rescued 23 men, women and children after a frightening experience.",
    "They were lost and stranded in a rugged area of Kane County.",
    "The Californians ventured into one of the roughest and most remote landscapes in the United States."
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    "Sheriff's deputies rescued 23 men, women and children after a frightening experience.",
    "one vehicle stuck in sand and others running out of gas, they couldn't go back.",
    "One of the stranded Californians, Edwin Saghian, said, \"They were all sick, and they were all throwing up. You know, sick with the fever, stomach flues and everything like that. So it wasn't pleasant at all.\"",
    "After they called for help by cell phone, rescuers delivered food, water and gasoline and escorted them out."
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    "Sheriff's deputies rescued 23 men, women and children after a frightening experience.",
    "One relative, Esther Lahiji, said, \"They ran out of gas and they lost their way.",
    "The convoy of four vehicles, containing 13 adults and 10 children, had visited Bryce Canyon and Kodachrome Basin.",
    "One of the stranded Californians, Edwin Saghian, said, \"They were all sick, and they were all throwing up."
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    "What got the group in trouble, according to the sheriff, was a foolish reliance on another electronic device, a GPS unit.",
    "Using a GPS unit, they tried to reconnect to a paved road far to the south.",
    "But they got lost in a network of dirt roads, which Kane County Sheriff Lamont Smith says often lead nowhere."
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   "url": "https://cbsnews.com/news/death-by-gps-warnings-about-the-devices",
   "title": "\"Death by GPS\": Warnings about the devices",
   "incident_date": "2011-05",
   "location": "Nevada wilderness, Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Albert and Rita Chretien got stranded in their van; Rita was rescued after seven-and-a-half weeks, while Albert went for help and remained missing.",
   "people": "A Canadian couple, Rita Chretien and her husband Albert Chretien",
   "navigation": "Magellan GPS mounted on their dash, leading them to a dead end in the wilderness",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# \"Death by GPS\": Warnings about the devices",
    "The situation was highlighted when a Canadian couple [got lost in the Nevada wilderness](https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/07/national/main20060740.shtml) after following GPS directions to a dead end in that wilderness, police say.",
    "Rita Chretien was found in the couple's van earlier this month, after seven-and-a-half weeks."
   ],
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    "# \"Death by GPS\": Warnings about the devices",
    "The situation was highlighted when a Canadian couple [got lost in the Nevada wilderness](https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/07/national/main20060740.shtml) after following GPS directions to a dead end in that wilderness, police say."
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    "# \"Death by GPS\": Warnings about the devices",
    "Rita Chretien was found in the couple's van earlier this month, after seven-and-a-half weeks.",
    "Her husband, Albert, who'd gone for help, is still missing."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# \"Death by GPS\": Warnings about the devices",
    "The situation was highlighted when a Canadian couple [got lost in the Nevada wilderness](https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/07/national/main20060740.shtml) after following GPS directions to a dead end in that wilderness, police say.",
    "Rita Chretien was found in the couple's van earlier this month, after seven-and-a-half weeks. Her husband, Albert, who'd gone for help, is still missing."
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    "# \"Death by GPS\": Warnings about the devices",
    "The situation was highlighted when a Canadian couple [got lost in the Nevada wilderness](https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/07/national/main20060740.shtml) after following GPS directions to a dead end in that wilderness, police say.",
    "\"They had a Magellan GPS ... mounted on their dash,\" says Sgt. Kevin McKinney of the Elko County, Nev. Sheriff's Department."
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   "url": "http://saudicaves.com/gps",
   "title": "The GPS and Desert Caves:pros and cons for Saudi Arabia",
   "incident_date": "2009-12-25",
   "location": "A wildlife refuge, Canada",
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   "outcome": "Spent three days stuck in the woods, got totally bogged down in snow",
   "people": "John and Starry Rhoads, an Oregon couple in their 60\u2019s",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Now let\u2019s talk about the \u201ccar GPS.\u201d",
    "A case in point is the tale of John and Starry Rhoads, an Oregon couple in their 60\u2019s, who, according to Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail, spent three days stuck in the woods when their talking GPS directed them down a remote forest road on Christmas day, 2009."
   ],
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    "Now let\u2019s talk about the \u201ccar GPS.\u201d",
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    "Now let\u2019s talk about the \u201ccar GPS.\u201d",
    "A case in point is the tale of John and Starry Rhoads, an Oregon couple in their 60\u2019s, who, according to Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail, spent three days stuck in the woods when their talking GPS directed them down a remote forest road on Christmas day, 2009."
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    "Now let\u2019s talk about the \u201ccar GPS.\u201d",
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    "Now let\u2019s talk about the \u201ccar GPS.\u201d",
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   "url": "http://saudicaves.com/gps",
   "title": "The GPS and Desert Caves:pros and cons for Saudi Arabia",
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   "outcome": "Drove her $200,000 Mercedes into a river, pulled from the car before it was swept away",
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   "url": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3025453.3025737",
   "title": "Understanding \"Death by GPS\": A Systematic Study of Catastrophic Incidents Associated with Personal Navigation Technologies",
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   "location": "Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Husband lost his life, couple stranded for 49 days",
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    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in one incident a Canadian couple got lost in rural Nevada after selecting the \"shortest path\" route option suggested by their navigation device, which included a littlemaintained road.",
    "## Standard Scenarios versus Catastrophic Incidents"
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    "## Introduction",
    "They were stranded in Nevada for 49 days, during which time the husband sadly lost his life (article #9).",
    "## Standard Scenarios versus Catastrophic Incidents"
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    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in one incident a Canadian couple got lost in rural Nevada after selecting the \"shortest path\" route option suggested by their navigation device, which included a littlemaintained road.",
    "## Standard Scenarios versus Catastrophic Incidents"
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    "## Introduction",
    "For example, in one incident a Canadian couple got lost in rural Nevada after selecting the \"shortest path\" route option suggested by their navigation device, which included a littlemaintained road.",
    "## Standard Scenarios versus Catastrophic Incidents"
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   "url": "https://bleav.com/shows/the-crux-true-survival-stories/episodes/9-days-stranded-in-the-nevada-wilderness-the-wrong-turn-that-took-a-life-e-240",
   "title": "The CRUX: True Survival Stories: 9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E240",
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   "location": "Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA",
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   "outcome": "Ronnie Barker deceased, Beverly Barker rescued after surviving in car for 7 days.",
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    "WTHR 13News Indianapolis. \u201cMissing Indianapolis couple found in Nevada; Ronnie Barker deceased.\u201d April 5, 2022.",
    "8 News Now / KLAS-TV Las Vegas. \u201cMissing couple survived alone in car for 7 days before death and rescue.\u201d April 7, 2022."
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    "On March 27, 2022, Ronnie and Beverly Barker were on a road trip they had made a dozen times before \u2014 from Oregon, heading south through Nevada toward Tucson, Arizona to meet friends."
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   "url": "https://everything.explained.today/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS explained",
   "incident_date": "2011-03",
   "location": "northern Nevada, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "two killed (a couple)",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In March 2011, a couple from British Columbia died after being led off course by their GPS in northern Nevada.[9]"
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   "url": "https://everything.explained.today/Death_by_GPS",
   "title": "Death by GPS explained",
   "incident_date": "2022-09",
   "location": "a defunct bridge dropping off into a creek, North Carolina, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "one man killed",
   "people": "a North Carolina man",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In September 2022, a North Carolina man died after a GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek.[10] [11] [12]"
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In September 2022, a North Carolina man died after a GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek.[10] [11] [12]"
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    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In September 2022, a North Carolina man died after a GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek.[10] [11] [12]"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In September 2022, a North Carolina man died after a GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek.[10] [11] [12]"
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Death by GPS explained",
    "- In September 2022, a North Carolina man died after a GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek.[10] [11] [12]"
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://timesofoman.com/article/2830391/Oman/Good-Samaritan-braves-desert-to-rescue-3-year-old-boy-and-parents",
   "title": "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
   "incident_date": "2020-02-29",
   "location": "Sharqiyah Sands, Oman",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued safely after seven hours of searching; no food, water, or petrol left, but health stable and child's health stable",
   "people": "A foreign family consisting of parents and a three-year-old boy",
   "navigation": "GPS installed in the rental four-wheeler; the owner tracked the vehicle using coordinates from the GPS",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "Saturday 29/February/2020 22:20 PM"
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    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
    "\u201cWe found them at around four o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d he said."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "**Muscat:** A three-year-old boy and his family who\u2019d gotten stranded in the deserts of the Sharqiyah Sands were rescued by a kind-hearted Omani who helped Royal Oman Police search teams locate them after seven hours of searching.",
    "\u201cMy friends who worked as policemen informed me that a foreign family had been reported missing in Al Sharqiyah Sands, after the owner of the rental car office told officers that he had been trying to call the family, but their mobile phone appeared to have been switched off,\u201d recalled Al Ghelani."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
    "Since so many tourists come to explore the Sharqiyah Sands, the company that had rented the vehicle to this family had installed GPS in all of their four wheelers.",
    "\u201cAs the GPS had been switched on, the owner of the vehicle was able to inform the nearest police station, which is located in Bidiyah,\u201d recalled the 27-year-old."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://meaww.com/family-of-four-who-went-missing-after-getting-diverted-by-gps-found-after-2-days-deserted-location",
   "title": "Family of four who went missing after getting diverted by GPS found after 2 days deserted location",
   "incident_date": "2022-08-07",
   "location": "Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle located off-track with all four occupants located safe and well inside the vehicle after two days",
   "people": "Darian Aspinall, 27, her two young children aged two and four, and their grandmother Lead Gooding, 50",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, led them astray causing them to deviate off track",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Family of four who went missing in the OUTBACK after GPS error found after 2 days",
    "Between 12:30 pm and 3 pm on Sunday, August 7, the family departed the Noccundra Hotel on Warry Gate Road in Queensland."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Family of four who went missing in the OUTBACK after GPS error found after 2 days",
    "TIBOOBURRA, NEW SOUTH WALES: Darian Aspinall, 27, her two young children, aged two and four, and their grandmother, Lead Gooding, 50, were on a mission to shift states from Queensland to Adelaide."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Family of four who went missing in the OUTBACK after GPS error found after 2 days",
    "Police stated that a \"search and rescue helicopter located a vehicle off-track, about 50km southeast of Tibooburra, about 4:15 pm today."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Family of four who went missing in the OUTBACK after GPS error found after 2 days",
    "TIBOOBURRA, NEW SOUTH WALES: Darian Aspinall, 27, her two young children, aged two and four, and their grandmother, Lead Gooding, 50, were on a mission to shift states from Queensland to Adelaide."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Family of four who went missing in the OUTBACK after GPS error found after 2 days",
    "However, their [Google maps](https://meaww.com/the-real-story-behind-that-horrifying-google-maps-clown-pic) led them astray, causing them to deviate off track and leaving them stranded."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/03/15/man-following-gps-navigation-drives-car-into-charlton-lake/",
   "title": "Man following GPS navigation drives car into Charlton lake",
   "incident_date": "Sunday morning",
   "location": "Buffumville Lake in Charlton, Massachusetts",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "The driver managed to escape the vehicle on his own and was taken to a Worcester hospital with non-life-threatening injuries; the car was completely submerged in about 8 to 10 feet of water and was later recovered.",
   "people": "A man (driver)",
   "navigation": "GPS navigation",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Man following GPS navigation drives car into Charlton lake",
    "Divers were called to Buffumville Lake in Charlton on Sunday morning after a man drove his car into the water while following his GPS navigation, officials said."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Man following GPS navigation drives car into Charlton lake",
    "Divers were called to Buffumville Lake in Charlton on Sunday morning after a man drove his car into the water while following his GPS navigation, officials said."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Man following GPS navigation drives car into Charlton lake",
    "Charlton Fire Captain Dean Babineau said the car was completely submerged in about 8 to 10 feet of water.",
    "The driver was taken to a Worcester hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Babineau said."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Man following GPS navigation drives car into Charlton lake",
    "Divers were called to Buffumville Lake in Charlton on Sunday morning after a man drove his car into the water while following his GPS navigation, officials said."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Man following GPS navigation drives car into Charlton lake",
    "Divers were called to Buffumville Lake in Charlton on Sunday morning after a man drove his car into the water while following his GPS navigation, officials said."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/sat-nav-leaves-bmw-left-teetering-on-cliff-edge-68",
   "title": "Sat nav leaves BMW left teetering on cliff edge",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW teetering on the edge of a cliff, car hit a fence and came to a stop just inches from a 100ft drop, driver facing a careless driving charge",
   "people": "Robert Jones",
   "navigation": "sat-nav left his BMW teetering on the edge of a cliff",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A driver is facing a careless driving charge after his sat-nav left his BMW teetering on the edge of a cliff (Mirror).",
    "He only realised something was wrong when his car hit a fence and came to a stop just inches from a 100ft drop."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Robert Jones said he trusted the gadget and continued to follow its instructions, even when it took him up a steep, narrow footpath."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A driver is facing a careless driving charge after his sat-nav left his BMW teetering on the edge of a cliff (Mirror)."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://stgeorgeutah.com/news/local/i-don-t-know-how-they-did-it-man-son-walk-20-miles-for-help/article_df16e262-70fd-5a82-b31a-460e1b256258.html",
   "title": "\u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2020-01-06",
   "location": "Arizona Strip, south of St. George, Mohave County, Arizona, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Nissan SUV stuck in deep mud, clay and snow; family of five rescued; 0 killed, 0 injured, 0 people required medical treatment beyond hydration and food, all unharmed",
   "people": "a family of five, consisting of a man, his wife, their teenage son, and two younger children",
   "navigation": "smartphone mapping application, mistakenly directed their vehicle onto unpaved backcountry roads",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
    "The incident was reported at 7 p.m. on Jan. 6 when the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s emergency dispatch received a call from a man who reported that he and his family were stranded after their vehicle became stuck in a remote location just south of St. George, according to a statement released by Rachel Carnahan with the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Arizona Strip District."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
    "The incident was reported at 7 p.m. on Jan. 6 when the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s emergency dispatch received a call from a man who reported that he and his family were stranded after their vehicle became stuck in a remote location just south of St. George, according to a statement released by Rachel Carnahan with the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Arizona Strip District.",
    "The family used a smartphone mapping application that mistakenly directed their vehicle onto unpaved backcountry roads along the Arizona Strip at 7,500 feet elevation.",
    "Nissan SUV gets stuck in the mud and strands family of five that are rescued in the Arizona Strip, Mohave County, Ariz., Jan. 6, 2020 | Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, St. George News"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
    "Nissan SUV gets stuck in the mud and strands family of five that are rescued in the Arizona Strip, Mohave County, Ariz., Jan. 6, 2020 | Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, St. George News",
    "We\u2019re thankful that the family involved was rescued without any injuries or loss of life."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
    "A family of five was rescued after a father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help, triggering a multi-agency response that searched for the group who had been stranded in mud and snow along the Arizona Strip last week.",
    "When numerous attempts to free the SUV from the deeply rutted mud failed, the man and his teenage son set out to find help, leaving his wife and two younger children behind to take shelter inside of the vehicle."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
    "The family used a smartphone mapping application that mistakenly directed their vehicle onto unpaved backcountry roads along the Arizona Strip at 7,500 feet elevation."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ndtv.com/offbeat/amazon-delivery-deliver-drives-van-into-water-following-gps-in-britain-11012966",
   "title": "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
   "incident_date": "2026-02-15",
   "location": "Broomway tidal path, Great Wakering, Essex, Britain",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle became stuck and submerged in mudflats; driver abandoned the van and was safe, and the vehicle was later extracted.",
   "people": "An Amazon delivery driver",
   "navigation": "GPS directions / GPS route",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters.",
    "An Amazon driver was forced to abandon their van on Sunday (Feb 15) after following GPS directions straight into the rising tide of the Broomway."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters.",
    "HM Coastguard Southend responded to the scene at Great Wakering after the vehicle became submerged in the mudflats."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters.",
    "- The driver abandoned the van and reported the incident to Amazon for vehicle extraction",
    "- HM Coastguard Southend responded and later removed the van from the mudflats safely",
    "An Amazon driver was forced to abandon their van on Sunday (Feb 15) after following GPS directions straight into the rising tide of the Broomway.",
    "HM Coastguard Southend responded to the scene at Great Wakering after the vehicle became submerged in the mudflats."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters.",
    "- An Amazon van got stuck on the Broomway tidal path in Essex after following GPS directions",
    "- The driver abandoned the van and reported the incident to Amazon for vehicle extraction",
    "An Amazon driver was forced to abandon their van on Sunday (Feb 15) after following GPS directions straight into the rising tide of the Broomway."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters.",
    "An Amazon driver was forced to abandon their van on Sunday (Feb 15) after following GPS directions straight into the rising tide of the Broomway.",
    "\"HM Coastguard Southend were called out this morning to reports that an Amazon Delivery Van had driven via Wakering Stairs onto The Broomway, which is a 600-year-old 6-mile 'walking' path out into the Thames Estuary, following a GPS route to take it onto Foulness Island,\" read the statement."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://motorauthority.com/news/1032658_sat-nav-strikes-again-uk-driver-nearly-goes-off-cliff-following-gps-directions",
   "title": "Sat nav strikes again: UK driver nearly goes off cliff following GPS directions",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Robert Jones",
   "navigation": "sat nav system; kept insisting the path was a road as it was getting narrower and steeper",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "When your GPS system tells you to drive down an unpaved, three-foot-wide path, perhaps it's time to pull to the side of the road, get your bearings and maybe - just maybe - even ask for directions.",
    "Instead, he soldiered on, following the sat nav system right up to and over the brink of a cliff.",
    "But Robert Jones of Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the UK, didn't do that."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "When your GPS system tells you to drive down an unpaved, three-foot-wide path, perhaps it's time to pull to the side of the road, get your bearings and maybe - just maybe - even ask for directions.",
    "But Robert Jones of Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the UK, didn't do that.",
    "The vehicle was stopped, and Jones was saved from a nearly certain Darwin Award win by a fortuitously placed wire fence."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Instead, he soldiered on, following the sat nav system right up to and over the brink of a cliff.",
    "\"It kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I just trusted it,\" Jones told the *Halifax Evening Courier*.",
    "When your GPS system tells you to drive down an unpaved, three-foot-wide path, perhaps it's time to pull to the side of the road, get your bearings and maybe - just maybe - even ask for directions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/us-news/tourists-drive-into-the-sea-while-following-gps-directions",
   "title": "Tourists drive SUV into the sea while following GPS directions, saved by 'angel' bartender who jumped in",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "marina in South Carolina, Isle of Palms, South Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle sank into the water; two occupants rescued safely and unharmed, declined medical care",
   "people": "A man and woman, both in their 60s, visiting the town on vacation",
   "navigation": "GPS directions led the couple to steer their SUV onto a boat ramp and go splashing into the sea",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "You\u2019ve arrived \u2014 in deep water!",
    "A couple following GPS directions accidentally drove straight into a marina in South Carolina \u2014 and had to be pulled from the sinking vehicle by a brave bartender, according to cops and witnesses.",
    "The man and woman, both in their 60s, were leaving 71 Seafood restaurant in the beachside town of Isle of Palms on Saturday night, when they steered their SUV onto a boat ramp and went splashing into the sea, according to local police."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "You\u2019ve arrived \u2014 in deep water!",
    "A couple following GPS directions accidentally drove straight into a marina in South Carolina \u2014 and had to be pulled from the sinking vehicle by a brave bartender, according to cops and witnesses.",
    "The tourists \u201csuccessfully completed a DUI field test\u201d and declined medical care at the scene, Isle of Palms Police spokesperson Sgt. Matt Storen told [The Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13866319/couple-rescued-gps-water-south-carolina-restaurant-staff.html)."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "You\u2019ve arrived \u2014 in deep water!",
    "The man and woman, both in their 60s, were leaving 71 Seafood restaurant in the beachside town of Isle of Palms on Saturday night, when they steered their SUV onto a boat ramp and went splashing into the sea, according to local police.",
    "The unidentified couple \u2014 who were visiting the town on vacation \u2014 managed to roll their windows down, allowing Himmelsbach to grab them from the partially submerged vehicle, police and witnesses said."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "You\u2019ve arrived \u2014 in deep water!",
    "A couple following GPS directions accidentally drove straight into a marina in South Carolina \u2014 and had to be pulled from the sinking vehicle by a brave bartender, according to cops and witnesses.",
    "The man and woman, both in their 60s, were leaving 71 Seafood restaurant in the beachside town of Isle of Palms on Saturday night, when they steered their SUV onto a boat ramp and went splashing into the sea, according to local police."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sedonaeye.com/gps-directions-strand-desert-travelers",
   "title": "GPS Directions Strand Desert Travelers",
   "incident_date": "2016-03-07",
   "location": "near Alamo Lake, Arizona, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Sedan stuck in a ditch; family of four (two adults, two children ages 4 and 1.5) rescued unharmed and transported out of the wilderness after being found by DPS Ranger Helicopter and ground search crew",
   "people": "a family of four, a male and female adult along with their children, ages 4 and 1\u00bd years",
   "navigation": "GPS mapping unit led them in the wrong direction and eventually to a point where their vehicle became stranded in a wash",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On March 7, 2016, at 11:20 in the evening, the **Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office** was notified that a family of four, a male and female adult along with their children, ages 4 and 1\u00bd years, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On March 7, 2016, at 11:20 in the evening, the **Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office** was notified that a family of four, a male and female adult along with their children, ages 4 and 1\u00bd years, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On March 7, 2016, at 11:20 in the evening, the **Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office** was notified that a family of four, a male and female adult along with their children, ages 4 and 1\u00bd years, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake.",
    "The family\u2019s sedan was stuck in a ditch and they were concerned that an overnight stay would place the family in danger.",
    "Around 1:45 the morning of March 8, the DPS Ranger crew was able to find the family.",
    "Just before 3:00 a.m., the SYCSRT ground crew contacted the family and provided transportation out of the wilderness to the Alamo Campground where they met up with other family members."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On March 7, 2016, at 11:20 in the evening, the **Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office** was notified that a family of four, a male and female adult along with their children, ages 4 and 1\u00bd years, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "The adults explained to deputies they had been using a GPS mapping unit to guide them to a campground near the lake.",
    "Instead, the GPS mapping led them in the wrong direction and eventually to a point where their vehicle became stranded in a wash."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sedonaeye.com/gps-directions-strand-desert-travelers",
   "title": "GPS Directions Strand Desert Travelers",
   "incident_date": "2016-02-27",
   "location": "near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge, near the Verde River, Arizona, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle found unoccupied and stuck; 68-year-old woman found alive with scratches and bruises, disoriented, and transported by DPS Ranger helicopter to a Phoenix area hospital for treatment",
   "people": "a 68-year-old woman from Mesa, Arizona",
   "navigation": "Phone application tracking OnStar service; GPS directions indicated she was on a country road heading towards pavement, but actually she was driving further from civilization",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On February 27, 2016, around 6:00 in the evening, a Mesa, Arizona, resident called YCSO for help to find his wife, 68, as she was apparently lost near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On February 27, 2016, around 6:00 in the evening, a Mesa, Arizona, resident called YCSO for help to find his wife, 68, as she was apparently lost near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge.",
    "Fortunately, just before the signal was lost, her husband tracked and recorded the location which placed the vehicle near the Verde River, south of Sheeps Bridge."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "Just before 8:30 in the evening, the DPS Ranger Crew found the vehicle, but it was unoccupied.",
    "The Back Country team quickly arrived and tracked shoe prints away from the vehicle which led to the woman who was waiting several hundred yards away.",
    "She was disoriented but otherwise physically okay except for scratches and bruises sustained while wandering away from the car.",
    "DPS Ranger was called back to the scene and transported her to a Phoenix area hospital for treatment."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "On February 27, 2016, around 6:00 in the evening, a Mesa, Arizona, resident called YCSO for help to find his wife, 68, as she was apparently lost near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Sedona AZ (March 9, 2016)",
    "As she drove, he checked her location periodically using a phone application to track the OnStar service in the vehicle.",
    "After about four hours, GPS directions indicated she was on a country road heading towards pavement, but actually she was driving further from civilization."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13866319/couple-rescued-gps-water-south-carolina-restaurant-staff.html",
   "title": "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2024-09",
   "location": "Isle of Palms Marina, Isle of Palms, South Carolina, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "SUV plummeted into the water and completely submerged; 2 people rescued safely by restaurant staff, declined medical care, no injuries or environmental impacts reported.",
   "people": "A 70-year-old man and a woman in her 60s (unidentified couple visiting Isle of Palms, South Carolina)",
   "navigation": "Navigation system; the vehicle followed wrong GPS directions and hopped on a boat ramp entrance.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "Employees from Islander 71 Seafood restaurant and bar in Isle of Palms quickly jumped into action after the couple, who were vacationing in the city, drove into a nearby marina Saturday around 10.30pm."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "Employees from Islander 71 Seafood restaurant and bar in Isle of Palms quickly jumped into action after the couple, who were vacationing in the city, drove into a nearby marina Saturday around 10.30pm."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "The department said no injuries or 'environmental impacts' were reported."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "The unidentified couple, a 70-year-old man and a woman in her 60s, had just enjoyed dinner at the restaurant before their SUV hopped on a boat ramp entrance and plummeted into the water after listening to the navigation system, according to Sgt. Matt Storen with the Isle of Palms Police Department."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "A couple who accidently drove into water after following wrong GPS directions were saved by heroic restaurant workers in South Carolina."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13866319/couple-rescued-gps-water-south-carolina-restaurant-staff.html",
   "title": "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "Honokohau Harbor, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Silver Chrysler Town & Country van quickly sank into the harbor; 2 women escaped unharmed and were helped by sailboat crew members.",
   "people": "Two tourists, including a female driver and her sister as passenger",
   "navigation": "GPS directions; took a wrong turn straight into the sea/harbor.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "Christie Hutchinson captured the dramatic moment on video which showed the crew swimming up to the driver and passenger and helping them escape unharmed."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://cultivatedcomfort.com/couples-road-trip-turns-stressful-after-gps-sends-them-down-remote-dirt-roads-with-no-cell-service",
   "title": "Couple\u2019s Road Trip Turns Stressful After GPS Sends Them Down Remote Dirt Roads With No Cell Service",
   "incident_date": "Christmas",
   "location": "Eastern Oregon's high desert, starting from Portland through Highway 97 to Oregon Highway 31 through Silver Lake, and Forest Service Road 28, Oregon, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle became stuck in about 1.5 feet of snow; two occupants rescued after waiting three days until atmospheric conditions allowed their phone to send coordinates.",
   "people": "A Nevada couple, aged 65 and 67",
   "navigation": "Toyota Sequoia's GPS system (satellite navigation) instructed them to turn onto Forest Service Road 28.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A Nevada couple using their Toyota Sequoia\u2019s GPS system got stuck in snow after [the device directed them down a Forest Service road](https://spectrum.ieee.org/different-couples-follow-gps-directions-into-trouble-in-oregon) in Eastern Oregon\u2019s high desert on Christmas.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "A Nevada couple using their Toyota Sequoia\u2019s GPS system got stuck in snow after [the device directed them down a Forest Service road](https://spectrum.ieee.org/different-couples-follow-gps-directions-into-trouble-in-oregon) in Eastern Oregon\u2019s high desert on Christmas.",
    "The couple, aged 65 and 67, followed their GPS from Portland through Highway 97 to Oregon Highway 31 through Silver Lake.",
    "In Silver Lake, their satellite navigation instructed them to turn onto Forest Service Road 28.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "They followed it for nearly 35 miles before becoming stuck in about 1.5 feet of snow.",
    "It took three days before atmospheric conditions allowed their GPS-equipped phone to send coordinates to rescuers.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "A Nevada couple using their Toyota Sequoia\u2019s GPS system got stuck in snow after [the device directed them down a Forest Service road](https://spectrum.ieee.org/different-couples-follow-gps-directions-into-trouble-in-oregon) in Eastern Oregon\u2019s high desert on Christmas.",
    "The couple, aged 65 and 67, followed their GPS from Portland through Highway 97 to Oregon Highway 31 through Silver Lake.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A Nevada couple using their Toyota Sequoia\u2019s GPS system got stuck in snow after [the device directed them down a Forest Service road](https://spectrum.ieee.org/different-couples-follow-gps-directions-into-trouble-in-oregon) in Eastern Oregon\u2019s high desert on Christmas.",
    "In Silver Lake, their satellite navigation instructed them to turn onto Forest Service Road 28.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
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  {
   "url": "https://cultivatedcomfort.com/couples-road-trip-turns-stressful-after-gps-sends-them-down-remote-dirt-roads-with-no-cell-service",
   "title": "Couple\u2019s Road Trip Turns Stressful After GPS Sends Them Down Remote Dirt Roads With No Cell Service",
   "incident_date": "Christmas Eve",
   "location": "Forest service road to The Dalles, Oregon, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle got stuck in snow with an 11-month-old baby without food or extra clothing; rescued a day later by rescuers using the same type of GPS unit to map their potential routes.",
   "people": "A young Lebanon, Oregon couple with their 11-month-old daughter",
   "navigation": "GPS offered a shortcut on a forest service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles to The Dalles.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Another young Lebanon, Oregon couple got stuck on Christmas Eve after their GPS offered a shortcut on a forest service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles to The Dalles.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Another young Lebanon, Oregon couple got stuck on Christmas Eve after their GPS offered a shortcut on a forest service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles to The Dalles.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Another young Lebanon, Oregon couple got stuck on Christmas Eve after their GPS offered a shortcut on a forest service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles to The Dalles.",
    "They had no food or extra clothing in their SUV when they became stranded.",
    "Rescuers found them a day later by using the same type of GPS unit to map their potential routes.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Another young Lebanon, Oregon couple got stuck on Christmas Eve after their GPS offered a shortcut on a forest service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles to The Dalles.",
    "The young Oregon couple with their 11-month-old daughter tried to use their cell phones after getting stuck but couldn\u2019t get a signal.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Another young Lebanon, Oregon couple got stuck on Christmas Eve after their GPS offered a shortcut on a forest service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles to The Dalles.",
    "Getting Stuck on Remote Forest Roads"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/us-driver-following-gps-plunges-into-lake-champlain-1804495",
   "title": "US Driver Following GPS Plunges Into Lake Champlain",
   "incident_date": "2018-01-12",
   "location": "Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "A Jeep Compass sank into an icy lake with only its rear bumper visible; three occupants escaped unharmed and were later rescued.",
   "people": "An unnamed driver and two passengers (friends from out of state driving a borrowed car)",
   "navigation": "Waze app, instructed the driver to go straight down the boat ramp onto the ice",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "The trio -- friends from out of state driving a borrowed car -- escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "![Man Blindly Following GPS Drives Jeep Into Icy Lake](https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/car-gps-falls-into-lake-650_650x400_41516860295.jpg?downsize=773:435)"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio -- friends from out of state driving a borrowed car -- escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank.",
    "![Man Blindly Following GPS Drives Jeep Into Icy Lake](https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/car-gps-falls-into-lake-650_650x400_41516860295.jpg?downsize=773:435)"
   ],
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    "The trio -- friends from out of state driving a borrowed car -- escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank.",
    "\"The only visible portion of the vehicle was its rear bumper,\" as the rest of the car was submerged, the report said.",
    "The Jeep was finally pulled from the water on Monday.",
    "![Man Blindly Following GPS Drives Jeep Into Icy Lake](https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/car-gps-falls-into-lake-650_650x400_41516860295.jpg?downsize=773:435)"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio -- friends from out of state driving a borrowed car -- escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "The unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \"followed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\" the report read.",
    "![Man Blindly Following GPS Drives Jeep Into Icy Lake](https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/car-gps-falls-into-lake-650_650x400_41516860295.jpg?downsize=773:435)"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \"followed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\" the report read.",
    "Guertin told local reporters that the driver was using the Waze app, which uses user-supplied data to help people find alternate routes to avoid traffic jams or speed cameras.",
    "![Man Blindly Following GPS Drives Jeep Into Icy Lake](https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/car-gps-falls-into-lake-650_650x400_41516860295.jpg?downsize=773:435)"
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  {
   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/46705176/i-dont-know-how-they-did-it-man-son-walk-20-miles-for-help-after-family-is-stranded-by-bad-gps-directions",
   "title": "\u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2020-01-06",
   "location": "Arizona Strip, Mohave County, Arizona, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "A family of five was rescued after becoming stranded; the father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help while the wife and two younger children sheltered in the vehicle; all survived and were rescued.",
   "people": "A family of five consisting of a father, a teenage son, a mother, and two younger children",
   "navigation": "smartphone mapping application that mistakenly directed their vehicle onto unpaved backcountry roads along the Arizona Strip",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "ST. GEORGE \u2014 A family of five was rescued after a father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help, triggering a multi-agency response that searched for the group who had been stranded in mud and snow along the Arizona Strip last week.",
    "The incident was reported at 7 p.m. on Jan. 6 when the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s emergency dispatch received a call from a man who reported that he and his family were stranded after their vehicle became stuck in a remote location just south of St. George, according to a statement released by Rachel Carnahan with the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Arizona Strip District."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "ST. GEORGE \u2014 A family of five was rescued after a father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help, triggering a multi-agency response that searched for the group who had been stranded in mud and snow along the Arizona Strip last week.",
    "The incident was reported at 7 p.m. on Jan. 6 when the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s emergency dispatch received a call from a man who reported that he and his family were stranded after their vehicle became stuck in a remote location just south of St. George, according to a statement released by Rachel Carnahan with the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Arizona Strip District."
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    "ST. GEORGE \u2014 A family of five was rescued after a father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help, triggering a multi-agency response that searched for the group who had been stranded in mud and snow along the Arizona Strip last week.",
    "When numerous attempts to free the SUV from the deeply rutted mud failed, the man and his teenage son set out to find help, leaving his wife and two younger children behind to take shelter inside of the vehicle."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "ST. GEORGE \u2014 A family of five was rescued after a father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help, triggering a multi-agency response that searched for the group who had been stranded in mud and snow along the Arizona Strip last week.",
    "When numerous attempts to free the SUV from the deeply rutted mud failed, the man and his teenage son set out to find help, leaving his wife and two younger children behind to take shelter inside of the vehicle."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The family used a smartphone mapping application that mistakenly directed their vehicle onto unpaved backcountry roads along the Arizona Strip at 7,500 feet elevation."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://tfw2005.com/boards/threads/i-followed-my-gps-off-a-bridge.1038159",
   "title": "I followed my GPS off a bridge...........",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "wife dies, driver (64 years old) survived",
   "people": "64-year-old man and his wife",
   "navigation": "followed GPS / GPS",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Driver follows GPS off disused bridge, and wife dies, police say - CNET",
    "This isn't very funny. The guy is 64 and his wife died. Whoever programmed that GPS should be fired."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "This isn't very funny. The guy is 64 and his wife died. Whoever programmed that GPS should be fired."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Driver follows GPS off disused bridge, and wife dies, police say - CNET",
    "And if the car drives your drunk butt off a bridge because it followed what it thought was \"correct directions\" from a GPS system? No thanks."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/roadtreking/posts/3045511672274458/",
   "title": "RV Lifestyle Group | An elderly couple was stranded in Nevada\u2019s high desert when the GPS routed their RV through backroads | Facebook",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Nevada's high desert, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One survived, missing for more than a week",
   "people": "An elderly couple",
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    "An elderly couple was stranded in Nevada\u2019s high desert when the GPS routed their RV through backroads.",
    "Missing for more than a week, only one survived."
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    "An elderly couple was stranded in Nevada\u2019s high desert when the GPS routed their RV through backroads."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "An elderly couple was stranded in Nevada\u2019s high desert when the GPS routed their RV through backroads."
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  {
   "url": "http://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-gps-into-disaster",
   "title": "8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "North Stradbroke Island, Brisbane, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle abandoned, sent to the dump, occupants returned on foot unharmed",
   "people": "Three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS used to plan a drive across water",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://theweek.com/tag/australia)[used their GPS](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific) to plan a drive to North Stradbroke Island, just off the coast of the eastern city of Brisbane.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://theweek.com/tag/australia)[used their GPS](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific) to plan a drive to North Stradbroke Island, just off the coast of the eastern city of Brisbane.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "The three were forced to abandon the vehicle and return on foot.",
    "A tow truck gave the poor tourists a ride back, and the car, not being worth the repair, was sent to the dump.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://theweek.com/tag/australia)[used their GPS](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific) to plan a drive to North Stradbroke Island, just off the coast of the eastern city of Brisbane.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Three Japanese tourists in [Australia](https://theweek.com/tag/australia)[used their GPS](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-disaster-japanese-tourists-drive-straight-into-the-pacific) to plan a drive to North Stradbroke Island, just off the coast of the eastern city of Brisbane.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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  {
   "url": "http://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-gps-into-disaster",
   "title": "8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "West Yorkshire, England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car left teetering on a 100-foot cliff edge, driver got out safely, car hauled away after nine hours, driver given a court citation",
   "people": "Robert Jones",
   "navigation": "Satellite navigation system directed driver onto a steep footpath, insisting the path was a road",
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    "In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the [best of him](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-teetering-100ft-cliff-edge-sat-nav-directs-driver-steep-footpath.html) when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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    "In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the [best of him](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-teetering-100ft-cliff-edge-sat-nav-directs-driver-steep-footpath.html) when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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    "He managed to get out safely, but the car remained balanced on the edge.",
    "It took a recovery team nine hours to haul the car away, and Jones was given a court citation for driving without care and attention.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the [best of him](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-teetering-100ft-cliff-edge-sat-nav-directs-driver-steep-footpath.html) when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the [best of him](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-teetering-100ft-cliff-edge-sat-nav-directs-driver-steep-footpath.html) when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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   "url": "http://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-gps-into-disaster",
   "title": "8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Bellevue, Washington",
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   "outcome": "SUV ended up sinking into deep water and was completely submerged, all three occupants got out safely",
   "people": "Three women",
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    "In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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    "In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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    "Instead, their SUV ended up sinking into deep water.",
    "All three managed to get out safely, but by the time the tow truck arrived, the SUV was completely submerged.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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    "In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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    "After asking the GPS to re-route, they took what they thought was a road that would lead them to the highway.",
    "\"The machine knows where it's going!\" [yells Michael Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo) in an episode of *The Office*, before driving his car directly into a lake."
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   "url": "https://news.yahoo.com/restaurant-staff-rescues-couple-drove-182959232.html",
   "title": "Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
   "incident_date": "2024-09-14",
   "location": "Isle of Palms, South Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "SUV submerged; couple rescued by restaurant staff unharmed/survived",
   "people": "an out-of-town couple in their 60s",
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    "Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "Shortly before 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, Sept. 14, employees at Islander 71, a dockside restaurant on Isle of Palms, heard a splash and realized a car had gone into the water, the Isle of Palms Police Department tells PEOPLE."
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    "Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "Employees at a barrier island restaurant in South Carolina acted fast after an out-of-town couple confused by GPS directions drove their SUV straight into a marina.",
    "The out-of-town driver and passenger accidentally drove down a boat ramp and into a South Carolina marina",
    "Shortly before 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, Sept. 14, employees at Islander 71, a dockside restaurant on Isle of Palms, heard a splash and realized a car had gone into the water, the Isle of Palms Police Department tells PEOPLE.",
    "The couple accidentally drove the vehicle through the marina parking lot, down the boat ramp and into Morgan Creek directly behind the Isle of Palms Marina, he tells PEOPLE."
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    "Employees at a barrier island restaurant in South Carolina acted fast after an out-of-town couple confused by GPS directions drove their SUV straight into a marina.",
    "By the time first responders arrived on scene, the vehicle was already submerged, Storen says.",
    "The couple, who are in their 60s, \u201cfortunately remained calm and thought to roll the windows down as the vehicle hit the water,\u201d he adds, which aided the rescue."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "Employees at a barrier island restaurant in South Carolina acted fast after an out-of-town couple confused by GPS directions drove their SUV straight into a marina.",
    "The out-of-town driver and passenger accidentally drove down a boat ramp and into a South Carolina marina",
    "The couple, who are in their 60s, \u201cfortunately remained calm and thought to roll the windows down as the vehicle hit the water,\u201d he adds, which aided the rescue."
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    "Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "Employees at a barrier island restaurant in South Carolina acted fast after an out-of-town couple confused by GPS directions drove their SUV straight into a marina.",
    "According to Storen, the driver told officers that he had left the parking lot of the restaurant and got confused by what the GPS in his vehicle was saying."
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  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-13866319/couple-rescued-gps-water-south-carolina-restaurant-staff.html",
   "title": "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2024-09",
   "location": "Isle of Palms Marina, South Carolina, United States",
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   "outcome": null,
   "people": "A 70-year-old man and a woman in her 60s",
   "navigation": "navigation system / wrong GPS directions",
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    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "Employees from Islander 71 Seafood restaurant and bar in Isle of Palms quickly jumped into action after the couple, who were vacationing in the city, drove into a nearby marina Saturday around 10.30pm."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "Employees from Islander 71 Seafood restaurant and bar in Isle of Palms quickly jumped into action after the couple, who were vacationing in the city, drove into a nearby marina Saturday around 10.30pm."
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    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "The unidentified couple, a 70-year-old man and a woman in her 60s, had just enjoyed dinner at the restaurant before their SUV hopped on a boat ramp entrance and plummeted into the water after listening to the navigation system, according to Sgt. Matt Storen with the Isle of Palms Police Department."
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    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "A couple who accidently drove into water after following wrong GPS directions were saved by heroic restaurant workers in South Carolina."
   ]
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   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-13866319/couple-rescued-gps-water-south-carolina-restaurant-staff.html",
   "title": "Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "Honokohau Harbor, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States",
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    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "Sailboat crew members sprung into action and helped the female driver of the van escape through the window while the other passenger, also a woman, and reportedly the sister of the driver, escaped out the window on the other side of the car."
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    "# Couple accidentally drive into water and have to be rescued by South Carolina restaurant staff after following wrong GPS directions",
    "In 2023, two tourists [drove straight into Honokohau Harbor,](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii after listening to GPS directions."
   ]
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   "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Survival/comments/88qwh8/in_2017_college_woman_stranded_in_middle_of/",
   "title": "In 2017, college woman stranded in middle of Arizona desert, survives 5 days. Made some mistakes and some good decisions.",
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   "location": "Indian Reservation near but not in the Grand Canyon NP, Arizona, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle ran low on gas and became stranded in the desert; driver survived after spending 5 days stranded and hiking 11 miles for help before being rescued.",
   "people": "A college student",
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    "Long video (9 minutes), but in summary, the college student followed her GPS across an Indian Reservation (near but not in the Grand Canyon NP) and was running out of gas with no cell coverage.",
    "https://www.dallasnews.com/news/denton/2017/03/22/stranded-5-days-arizona-wilderness-denton-woman-hikes-11-miles-call-help"
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    "Long video (9 minutes), but in summary, the college student followed her GPS across an Indian Reservation (near but not in the Grand Canyon NP) and was running out of gas with no cell coverage.",
    "https://www.dallasnews.com/news/denton/2017/03/22/stranded-5-days-arizona-wilderness-denton-woman-hikes-11-miles-call-help"
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    "Long video (9 minutes), but in summary, the college student followed her GPS across an Indian Reservation (near but not in the Grand Canyon NP) and was running out of gas with no cell coverage."
   ],
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    "Long video (9 minutes), but in summary, the college student followed her GPS across an Indian Reservation (near but not in the Grand Canyon NP) and was running out of gas with no cell coverage.",
    "Wrong = no maps, trusting google maps in rural areas and not enough gas."
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  },
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   "url": "https://www.facebook.com/foxcarolinanews/posts/the-driver-told-police-that-they-were-following-their-gps-when-the-system-guided/709104774590518/",
   "title": "The driver told police that they were...",
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   "outcome": null,
   "people": "The driver",
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    "The driver told police that they were following their GPS when the system guided them into a body of water in the woods"
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    "The driver told police that they were following their GPS when the system guided them into a body of water in the woods"
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  {
   "url": "https://983thesnake.com/faulty-gps-reading-leaves-driver-stranded-in-idaho-desert",
   "title": "Faulty GPS Reading Leaves Driver Stranded in Idaho Desert",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "remote southern Idaho trail, Idaho, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "small Prius became stuck; driver unharmed",
   "people": "driver of a small Prius",
   "navigation": "global position system, or GPS, confused the driver",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "A car abandoned on a remote southern Idaho trail is now being towed to Nevada.",
    "The Twin Falls County Sheriff\u2019s Office explains it happened because a global position system, or GPS, confused the driver."
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    "The small Prius eventually became stuck on a road where even some trucks have a tough time navigating.",
    "The Twin Falls County Sheriff\u2019s Office explains it happened because a global position system, or GPS, confused the driver."
   ],
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    "The Twin Falls County Sheriff\u2019s Office explains it happened because a global position system, or GPS, confused the driver.",
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    "The Twin Falls County Sheriff\u2019s Office explains it happened because a global position system, or GPS, confused the driver.",
    "The small Prius eventually became stuck on a road where even some trucks have a tough time navigating."
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  {
   "url": "https://983thesnake.com/faulty-gps-reading-leaves-driver-stranded-in-idaho-desert",
   "title": "Faulty GPS Reading Leaves Driver Stranded in Idaho Desert",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "desert",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "husband died, remains found after spring thaw; wife survived on limited food and huddled under blankets",
   "people": "a confused couple (husband and wife)",
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    "A few years ago, a confused couple got stuck in the desert.",
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    "A few years ago, a confused couple got stuck in the desert.",
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    "His remains were found after the spring thaw.",
    "The wife survived on a limited amount of food and huddled under blankets."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "A few years ago, a confused couple got stuck in the desert.",
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    "His remains were found after the spring thaw.",
    "The wife survived on a limited amount of food and huddled under blankets."
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    "A few years ago, a confused couple got stuck in the desert.",
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  {
   "url": "https://the-independent.com/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-rub-al-khali-desert-b2601566.html",
   "title": "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-22",
   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Two men died from exhaustion and dehydration; vehicle ran out of fuel and was buried under sand dunes",
   "people": "Mohammad Shehzad Khan and his unnamed Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal went off and phone died",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Their bodies were found on 22 August, four days after they were last heard from, buried under sand dunes beside their vehicle."
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    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Indian man and Sudanese colleague were left stranded in Rub\u2019 al Khali after phone died and car ran out of fuel",
    "An Indian man and his Sudanese colleague died from exhaustion and dehydration after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert.",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of [Telangana](/topic/telangana) and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported."
   ],
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    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "An Indian man and his Sudanese colleague died from exhaustion and dehydration after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert.",
    "After Shehzad\u2019s phone battery died and their vehicle ran out of fuel, they were left stranded without food or water.",
    "And despite their efforts to survive in the harsh desert conditions, they succumbed to starvation and dehydration.",
    "Their bodies were found on 22 August, four days after they were last heard from, buried under sand dunes beside their vehicle."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Indian man and Sudanese colleague were left stranded in Rub\u2019 al Khali after phone died and car ran out of fuel",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of [Telangana](/topic/telangana) and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported.",
    "Khan and his Sudanese colleague, whose name was not known, had been working in [Saudi Arabia](/topic/saudi-arabia) for three years with a telecommunications company."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of [Telangana](/topic/telangana) and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported.",
    "After Shehzad\u2019s phone battery died and their vehicle ran out of fuel, they were left stranded without food or water."
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  {
   "url": "https://kslnewsradio.com/utah/rescue-finds-family-stranded-by-bad-gps-directions-near-arizona-strip/1917820",
   "title": "Rescue finds family stranded by bad GPS directions near Arizona Strip - KSLNewsRadio",
   "incident_date": "2019-12-31",
   "location": "Arizona Strip, near Black Rock Mountain and Limeiln Canyon area, Mohave County, Utah/Arizona, United States",
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   "outcome": "car stuck in deep mud, clay, and snow; father and son walked 20 miles for help; all family members rescued unharmed with no injuries or loss of life",
   "people": "a family consisting of a father, mother, teenage son, and two younger kids",
   "navigation": "smartphone maps app led them over about 30-40 miles on backcountry dirt roads",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Rescue finds family stranded by bad GPS directions near Arizona Strip",
    "The BLM Arizona Strip Field Office [says](https://www.blm.gov/press-release/bureau-land-management-and-national-park-service-rangers%E2%80%99-work-county-sheriff%E2%80%99s-office) the family was driving back to Colorado from their vacation in California over New Year\u2019s, and wanted to see the Grand Canyon on the way."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Rescue finds family stranded by bad GPS directions near Arizona Strip",
    "ST. GEORGE, Utah \u2014 A family on the way to the Grand Canyon wound up stranded near the Arizona Strip instead \u2014 so far from help or cell phone signal that a father and son walked 20 miles to get help in freezing temperatures.",
    "The GPS led them over about 30-40 miles on the dirt roads in the Arizona Strip.",
    "But then the car got stuck in the deep mud, clay and snow on Black Rock Mountain.",
    "Mohave County officials determined the father and son were at the Lime Kiln Canyon area."
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    "# Rescue finds family stranded by bad GPS directions near Arizona Strip",
    "ST. GEORGE, Utah \u2014 A family on the way to the Grand Canyon wound up stranded near the Arizona Strip instead \u2014 so far from help or cell phone signal that a father and son walked 20 miles to get help in freezing temperatures.",
    "But then the car got stuck in the deep mud, clay and snow on Black Rock Mountain.",
    "\u201cGetting lost and stranded in the backcountry in cold weather like this could have proven disastrous, and we\u2019re thankful that the family involved was rescued without any injuries or loss of life,\u201d said BLM Deputy Director for Policy and Programs William Perry Pendley."
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    "# Rescue finds family stranded by bad GPS directions near Arizona Strip",
    "ST. GEORGE, Utah \u2014 A family on the way to the Grand Canyon wound up stranded near the Arizona Strip instead \u2014 so far from help or cell phone signal that a father and son walked 20 miles to get help in freezing temperatures.",
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    "# Rescue finds family stranded by bad GPS directions near Arizona Strip",
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   "url": "https://independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-rub-al-khali-desert-b2601566.html",
   "title": "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
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   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
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   "url": "https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-maps-australia-tourists-stranded/",
   "title": "Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route",
   "incident_date": "2024-02",
   "location": "Oyala Thumotang National Park, Queensland, Australia",
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   "outcome": "Vehicles got bogged down in wet mud; two tourists stranded and trapped for nearly a week before abandoning their vehicle and hiking out on foot; rescued safely after reaching Coen.",
   "people": "A pair of German tourists (including Philipp Maier)",
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    "A pair of German tourists navigating through Australia\u2019s Queensland wilderness experienced that first-hand earlier this month after a Google Maps route [allegedly](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/google-maps-tourists-lost-in-remote-area/103492986) sent them down a remote road leaving them trapped in the island\u2019s isolated national park."
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    "A pair of German tourists navigating through Australia\u2019s Queensland wilderness experienced that first-hand earlier this month after a Google Maps route [allegedly](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/google-maps-tourists-lost-in-remote-area/103492986) sent them down a remote road leaving them trapped in the island\u2019s isolated national park."
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "Once inside the park, the pair drove for around 30 miles before their vehicles suddenly got bogged down in wet mud."
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "A pair of German tourists navigating through Australia\u2019s Queensland wilderness experienced that first-hand earlier this month after a Google Maps route [allegedly](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/google-maps-tourists-lost-in-remote-area/103492986) sent them down a remote road leaving them trapped in the island\u2019s isolated national park."
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "The app reportedly instructed the pair to enter the Oyala Thumotang National park via a remote dirt road."
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  {
   "url": "https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-maps-australia-tourists-stranded/",
   "title": "Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "North Carolina, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver drowned (1 person killed)",
   "people": "A North Carolina man",
   "navigation": "Google Maps route led him towards a broken bridge hovering over a river that had collapsed nearly ten years prior.",
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "Last year, the family of a North Carolina man sued Google after the man, they claim, [drove into a creek](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/google-maps-collapsed-bridge-negligence-lawsuit) and drowned while following a Google Maps route."
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "Last year, the family of a North Carolina man sued Google after the man, they claim, [drove into a creek](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/google-maps-collapsed-bridge-negligence-lawsuit) and drowned while following a Google Maps route."
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "Last year, the family of a North Carolina man sued Google after the man, they claim, [drove into a creek](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/google-maps-collapsed-bridge-negligence-lawsuit) and drowned while following a Google Maps route."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "Last year, the family of a North Carolina man sued Google after the man, they claim, [drove into a creek](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/google-maps-collapsed-bridge-negligence-lawsuit) and drowned while following a Google Maps route."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "The driver\u2019s mother-in-law claims the directions he was following led him towards a broken bridge hovering over a river."
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  {
   "url": "https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-maps-australia-tourists-stranded/",
   "title": "Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route",
   "incident_date": "2018",
   "location": "Road of Bones, Russia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car radiators broke; one man died of frostbite, and the passenger survived with extreme hypothermia (1 killed, 1 injured/survived)",
   "people": "Two 18-year-old men",
   "navigation": "Google Maps route allegedly sent them down an inactive shortcut in Russia's Road of Bones.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "In another case, two 18-year-old men following a Google Maps route in 2018 were [allegedly sent down an inactive shortcut](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469) in Russia\u2019s infamous \u201c[Road of Bones](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/world/europe/russia-stalin-gulag-kolyma-magadan.html)\u201d during the dead of winter."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "In another case, two 18-year-old men following a Google Maps route in 2018 were [allegedly sent down an inactive shortcut](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469) in Russia\u2019s infamous \u201c[Road of Bones](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/world/europe/russia-stalin-gulag-kolyma-magadan.html)\u201d during the dead of winter."
   ],
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    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "One of the men reportedly died of frostbite after the car\u2019s radiators broke on the road."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "In another case, two 18-year-old men following a Google Maps route in 2018 were [allegedly sent down an inactive shortcut](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469) in Russia\u2019s infamous \u201c[Road of Bones](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/world/europe/russia-stalin-gulag-kolyma-magadan.html)\u201d during the dead of winter."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "In another case, two 18-year-old men following a Google Maps route in 2018 were [allegedly sent down an inactive shortcut](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469) in Russia\u2019s infamous \u201c[Road of Bones](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/world/europe/russia-stalin-gulag-kolyma-magadan.html)\u201d during the dead of winter."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-maps-australia-tourists-stranded/",
   "title": "Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route",
   "incident_date": "2023-10",
   "location": "Periyab River, Kerala, India",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Drowned (2 people killed)",
   "people": "A pair of doctors in India",
   "navigation": "Google Maps route directed them into the river during a heavy monsoon.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "More recently, a [pair of doctors in India reportedly drowned](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/wrong-google-maps-route-claims-lives-of-2-kerala-based-doctors-2443405-2023-10-02) in the Periyab River in Kerala after following a Google Maps route during a heavy monsoon, [according to](https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Oct/02/post-death-of-two-doctors-kerala-police-issues-warning-against-using-google-maps-during-monsoon-2620210.html) accounts from local law enforcement."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "More recently, a [pair of doctors in India reportedly drowned](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/wrong-google-maps-route-claims-lives-of-2-kerala-based-doctors-2443405-2023-10-02) in the Periyab River in Kerala after following a Google Maps route during a heavy monsoon, [according to](https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Oct/02/post-death-of-two-doctors-kerala-police-issues-warning-against-using-google-maps-during-monsoon-2620210.html) accounts from local law enforcement."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "More recently, a [pair of doctors in India reportedly drowned](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/wrong-google-maps-route-claims-lives-of-2-kerala-based-doctors-2443405-2023-10-02) in the Periyab River in Kerala after following a Google Maps route during a heavy monsoon, [according to](https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Oct/02/post-death-of-two-doctors-kerala-police-issues-warning-against-using-google-maps-during-monsoon-2620210.html) accounts from local law enforcement."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "More recently, a [pair of doctors in India reportedly drowned](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/wrong-google-maps-route-claims-lives-of-2-kerala-based-doctors-2443405-2023-10-02) in the Periyab River in Kerala after following a Google Maps route during a heavy monsoon, [according to](https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Oct/02/post-death-of-two-doctors-kerala-police-issues-warning-against-using-google-maps-during-monsoon-2620210.html) accounts from local law enforcement."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Just about everyone who drives has experienced moments where their navigation app of choice mistakenly sent them for a loop or failed to account for some minor roadway change.",
    "More recently, a [pair of doctors in India reportedly drowned](https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/wrong-google-maps-route-claims-lives-of-2-kerala-based-doctors-2443405-2023-10-02) in the Periyab River in Kerala after following a Google Maps route during a heavy monsoon, [according to](https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Oct/02/post-death-of-two-doctors-kerala-police-issues-warning-against-using-google-maps-during-monsoon-2620210.html) accounts from local law enforcement."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://carbuzz.com/fact-or-fiction-have-people-driven-into-lakes-because-of-navigation/",
   "title": "Fact Or Fiction: Have People Driven Into Lakes Because Of Navigation?",
   "incident_date": "2024-09",
   "location": "Isle of Palms, South Carolina, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle driven into the water off a marina boat dock; the couple narrowly escaped tragedy, were rescued by a bystander, and suffered no significant injuries or harm",
   "people": "A vacationing couple in their 60s",
   "navigation": "GPS navigation system; blind trust in navigation system directions or confusion regarding it",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "Even as recently as September 2024, there have been reports of people driving their car into water as a result of either blind trust in their [GPS navigation system](https://carbuzz.com/why-connected-cars-are-becoming-a-privacy-nightmare/)'s directions, or confusion regarding it which led to the mistake.",
    "The latter is exactly what happened in Isle of Palms, South Carolina in mid-September, where a vacationing couple in their 60s accidentally drove their vehicle off of a marina boat dock and into the water below."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "The latter is exactly what happened in Isle of Palms, South Carolina in mid-September, where a vacationing couple in their 60s accidentally drove their vehicle off of a marina boat dock and into the water below."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "The latter is exactly what happened in Isle of Palms, South Carolina in mid-September, where a vacationing couple in their 60s accidentally drove their vehicle off of a marina boat dock and into the water below.",
    "Thankfully, the couple didn't suffer any significant injuries or harm, but this situation obviously could've gone very wrong, very quickly."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "The latter is exactly what happened in Isle of Palms, South Carolina in mid-September, where a vacationing couple in their 60s accidentally drove their vehicle off of a marina boat dock and into the water below."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "Even as recently as September 2024, there have been reports of people driving their car into water as a result of either blind trust in their [GPS navigation system](https://carbuzz.com/why-connected-cars-are-becoming-a-privacy-nightmare/)'s directions, or confusion regarding it which led to the mistake."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.kcra.com/article/google-maps-man-dies-collapsed-bridge-lawsuit/45247488",
   "title": "Google lawsuit: Man drives off bridge while following Google Maps",
   "incident_date": "2022-09-30",
   "location": "Snow Creek in Hickory, North Carolina, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": null,
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Family sues after man dies driving off collapsed bridge while following Google Maps",
    "Philip Paxson, a medical device salesman and father of two, drowned Sept. 30, 2022, after his Jeep Gladiator plunged into Snow Creek in Hickory, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Family sues after man dies driving off collapsed bridge while following Google Maps",
    "Philip Paxson, a medical device salesman and father of two, drowned Sept. 30, 2022, after his Jeep Gladiator plunged into Snow Creek in Hickory, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": null,
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/two-men-die-in-saudi-arabian-deserts-perilous-empty-quarter-after-losing-gps-signal/a884305819.html",
   "title": "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-22",
   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Two people died from exhaustion, dehydration, and starvation.",
   "people": "Mohammad Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal went off",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Their bodies were found on August 22, four days after they were last heard from, buried under sand dunes beside their vehicle."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of Telangana and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported.",
    "They were reportedly stranded in the desolate and perilous Empty Quarter part of the desert, one of the most dangerous regions in the world."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "An Indian man and his Sudanese colleague died from exhaustion and dehydration after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert.",
    "After Shehzad\u2019s phone battery died and their vehicle ran out of fuel, they were left stranded without food or water.",
    "And despite their efforts to survive in the harsh desert conditions, they succumbed to starvation and dehydration."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "An Indian man and his Sudanese colleague died from exhaustion and dehydration after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert.",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of Telangana and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of Telangana and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://hercampus.com/culture/woman-followed-her-gps-lake-she-escaped-badass",
   "title": "This Woman Followed Her GPS Into a Lake, But She Escaped Like a Badass",
   "incident_date": "2016-05",
   "location": "Little Tub Harbor, Lake Huron / Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "The car floated long enough for the driver to escape through the window and swim to safety; no injuries, and the driver saved her purse; no police charges.",
   "people": "A 23-year-old Canadian woman",
   "navigation": "GPS, driving down a boat launch at Little Tub Harbor and plunging into the Great Lake",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Sometimes, these miscalculations can have more serious repercussions than being late to your friend\u2019s big party.",
    "According to [Cosmopolitan](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a58426/gps-leads-car-into-lake/), a 23-year-old Canadian woman recently made the mistake of blindly trusting her GPS, and ended up driving straight into Lake Huron.",
    "However, the *[Toronto Sun](http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/13/woman-follows-gps-ends-up-in-ontario-lake)* reported that that woman had been driving through extreme fog and rain, making it nearly impossible to see through the windshield of her car."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "According to [Cosmopolitan](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a58426/gps-leads-car-into-lake/), a 23-year-old Canadian woman recently made the mistake of blindly trusting her GPS, and ended up driving straight into Lake Huron.",
    "Even if that meant driving down a boat launch at Little Tub Harbor and plunging into the Great Lake."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Thankfully, the car stayed floating long enough for the woman to roll down the window of the car, crawl out and swim to safety.",
    "The woman luckily had no injuries\u2014despite the water being only 40 degrees\u2014and was even able to save her purse from her car."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "According to [Cosmopolitan](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a58426/gps-leads-car-into-lake/), a 23-year-old Canadian woman recently made the mistake of blindly trusting her GPS, and ended up driving straight into Lake Huron."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "According to [Cosmopolitan](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a58426/gps-leads-car-into-lake/), a 23-year-old Canadian woman recently made the mistake of blindly trusting her GPS, and ended up driving straight into Lake Huron.",
    "As a result of the poor driving conditions, the woman had no choice but to solely follow the directions of her GPS\u2026Even if that meant driving down a boat launch at Little Tub Harbor and plunging into the Great Lake."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/driver-fined-after-satnav-nearly-takes-him-over-cliff-1788899.html",
   "title": "Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff | The Independent",
   "incident_date": "2026-03-22",
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Robert Jones, 43, a driver",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff",
    "Robert Jones, 43, nearly plunged down the 100ft cliff in his BMW after obeying instructions which sent him along a steep, narrow path, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 22 March."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff",
    "Robert Jones, 43, nearly plunged down the 100ft cliff in his BMW after obeying instructions which sent him along a steep, narrow path, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 22 March."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff",
    "Robert Jones, 43, nearly plunged down the 100ft cliff in his BMW after obeying instructions which sent him along a steep, narrow path, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 22 March.",
    "Speaking after the incident earlier this year, Jones, who works as a driver, said he trusted his satnav system and relied on it for his job."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/driver-fined-after-satnav-nearly-takes-him-over-cliff-1788899.html",
   "title": "Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff | The Independent",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": null,
   "hazard": "cliff",
   "outcome": "BMW left teetering on the edge of a cliff; driver unharmed, fined \u00a3370 with \u00a3500 costs and a \u00a315 victim surcharge, and given six penalty points",
   "people": "Robert Jones, 43, a driver",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "# Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff",
    "Robert Jones, 43, nearly plunged down the 100ft cliff in his BMW after obeying instructions which sent him along a steep, narrow path, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 22 March."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff",
    "A driver whose car was left teetering on the edge of a cliff after following his satnav was ordered to pay nearly \u00a3900 for driving without due care and attention.",
    "He was given a \u00a3370 fine and six penalty points on his driving licence.",
    "He was also ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs and a \u00a315 victim surcharge when he appeared in court."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff",
    "Robert Jones, 43, nearly plunged down the 100ft cliff in his BMW after obeying instructions which sent him along a steep, narrow path, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 22 March.",
    "Speaking after the incident earlier this year, Jones, who works as a driver, said he trusted his satnav system and relied on it for his job."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://insideevs.com/news/767538/tesla-self-drives-into-water",
   "title": "\u2018The Car Didn\u2019t Stop\u2019: Driver Turns Self-Driving Mode On in Tesla. Then They Almost End Up In a Body of Water",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "Mono City, California",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Model 3 hydrophlaned, veered left and off the road, crashing into a pond. A man exited from the front passenger window.",
   "people": "A man behind the wheel",
   "navigation": "Tesla Full Self-Driving beta program, failed to clock road signs indicating flooding ahead and drove ahead at set speed of 60 mph",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In 2023, [Autoevolution wrote](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-driver-ignores-road-sign-his-car-drives-into-pond-running-on-fsd-beta-219898.html) that a Model 3 purportedly careened directly into a pond with the Full Self-Drivingfull beta program engaged.",
    "# \u2018The Car Didn\u2019t Stop\u2019: Driver Turns Self-Driving Mode On in Tesla. Then They Almost End Up In a Body of Water",
    "Tesla Full Self-Driving Into Water"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Further details indicate the commuter was traveling in Mono City, California with the autonomous driving mode engaged.",
    "# \u2018The Car Didn\u2019t Stop\u2019: Driver Turns Self-Driving Mode On in Tesla. Then They Almost End Up In a Body of Water",
    "Tesla Full Self-Driving Into Water"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "This caused the Model 3 to hydroplane until it veered left and off the road, crashing into a pond.",
    "After getting stuck, a man behind the wheel exited the vehicle from the front passenger\u2019s window.",
    "# \u2018The Car Didn\u2019t Stop\u2019: Driver Turns Self-Driving Mode On in Tesla. Then They Almost End Up In a Body of Water",
    "Tesla Full Self-Driving Into Water"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "After getting stuck, a man behind the wheel exited the vehicle from the front passenger\u2019s window.",
    "# \u2018The Car Didn\u2019t Stop\u2019: Driver Turns Self-Driving Mode On in Tesla. Then They Almost End Up In a Body of Water",
    "Tesla Full Self-Driving Into Water"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "In 2023, [Autoevolution wrote](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-driver-ignores-road-sign-his-car-drives-into-pond-running-on-fsd-beta-219898.html) that a Model 3 purportedly careened directly into a pond with the Full Self-Drivingfull beta program engaged.",
    "There were road signs indicating that flooding was occurring up ahead that the car\u2019s camera- and AI-based system reportedly did not clock.",
    "# \u2018The Car Didn\u2019t Stop\u2019: Driver Turns Self-Driving Mode On in Tesla. Then They Almost End Up In a Body of Water",
    "Tesla Full Self-Driving Into Water"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://cdllife.com/2024/big-rig-goes-into-lake-after-driver-followed-his-gps-down-boat-launch",
   "title": "Big rig goes into lake after driver followed his GPS down boat launch",
   "incident_date": "2024-04-27",
   "location": "Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Semi truck partially submerged in a lake; driver not injured and rescued",
   "people": "54 year old male truck driver",
   "navigation": "GPS guidance which inadvertently took him down the boat ramp",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A semi truck was partially submerged in a lake over the weekend after the driver followed instructions from his GPS down a boat launch.",
    "The incident occurred before 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, in the town of Osoyoos located in British Columbia, Canada."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "The incident occurred before 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, in the town of Osoyoos located in British Columbia, Canada.",
    "After driving down the Osoyoos Lake Boat Launch, the truck became partially submerged in the water."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A semi truck was partially submerged in a lake over the weekend after the driver followed instructions from his GPS down a boat launch.",
    "Local fire departments were called to the scene for a water rescue.",
    "The truck driver was not injured, [Castanet ](https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Oliver-Osoyoos/484756/Semi-truck-driver-stuck-in-marina-followed-GPS-down-an-Osoyoos-boat-ramp?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)reports."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "According to RCMP, a 54 year old male truck driver \u201cwas following his GPS guidance when it inadvertently took him down the boat ramp.",
    "The truck driver was not injured, [Castanet ](https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Oliver-Osoyoos/484756/Semi-truck-driver-stuck-in-marina-followed-GPS-down-an-Osoyoos-boat-ramp?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)reports."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A semi truck was partially submerged in a lake over the weekend after the driver followed instructions from his GPS down a boat launch.",
    "According to RCMP, a 54 year old male truck driver \u201cwas following his GPS guidance when it inadvertently took him down the boat ramp."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://english.gospelherald.com/news/oregon-family-stranded-in-snowy-mountain-due-to-shortest-route-gps-direction",
   "title": "Oregon Family Stranded in Snowy Mountain Due to 'Shortest Route' GPS Direction",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Tobermory, Ontario, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "driving straight into a bay, 100-ft-deep lake, she was lucky to be alive",
   "people": "a woman",
   "navigation": "GPS instructions through foggy weather, leading her to miss the road",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Oregon Family Stranded in Snowy Mountain Due to 'Shortest Route' GPS Direction",
    "Previous GPS accidents include a woman driving straight [into a bay](https://www.cnet.com/news/womans-gps-leads-her-straight-into-a-100-ft-deep-lake/) in Tobermory, Ontario, Canada as she was following GPS instructions through foggy weather, leading her to miss the road."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Oregon Family Stranded in Snowy Mountain Due to 'Shortest Route' GPS Direction",
    "Previous GPS accidents include a woman driving straight [into a bay](https://www.cnet.com/news/womans-gps-leads-her-straight-into-a-100-ft-deep-lake/) in Tobermory, Ontario, Canada as she was following GPS instructions through foggy weather, leading her to miss the road.",
    "She was lucky to be alive."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Oregon Family Stranded in Snowy Mountain Due to 'Shortest Route' GPS Direction",
    "Previous GPS accidents include a woman driving straight [into a bay](https://www.cnet.com/news/womans-gps-leads-her-straight-into-a-100-ft-deep-lake/) in Tobermory, Ontario, Canada as she was following GPS instructions through foggy weather, leading her to miss the road."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Oregon Family Stranded in Snowy Mountain Due to 'Shortest Route' GPS Direction",
    "Previous GPS accidents include a woman driving straight [into a bay](https://www.cnet.com/news/womans-gps-leads-her-straight-into-a-100-ft-deep-lake/) in Tobermory, Ontario, Canada as she was following GPS instructions through foggy weather, leading her to miss the road."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.wbaltv.com/article/south-carolina-couple-water-rescue-gps-driving-off-boat-dock/62243659",
   "title": "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Isle of Palms, South Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle submerged, two people rescued by bystanders and unharmed",
   "people": "A couple in their 60s",
   "navigation": "GPS confusion",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "**ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (Video from WCIV) \u2014**",
    "A couple in their 60s is safe after a near disaster in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, thanks to the quick actions of strangers."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "A couple in their 60s is safe after a near disaster in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, thanks to the quick actions of strangers.",
    "\"One of our bartenders, Johnny, a former lifeguard down in Myrtle Beach, didn't even hesitate; he jumped right in and was able to pull two people out of the car before it submerged into the water,\" Sollom [told WCIV-TV](https://abcnews4.com/news/local/elderly-couple-rescued-after-driving-into-water-at-isle-of-palms-marina).",
    "The couple is doing well and plans to thank their rescuers."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "A couple in their 60s is safe after a near disaster in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, thanks to the quick actions of strangers."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "The vacationing couple accidentally drove their vehicle off a marina boat dock and into the water below due to GPS confusion, leading to a dramatic rescue."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://insideedition.com/widow-says-husband-died-following-gps-off-cliff-where-never-repaired-bridge-stood-9-years-earlier",
   "title": "Widow Says Husband Died Following GPS Off Cliff Where Never-Repaired Bridge Stood 9 Years Earlier",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "suburban Charlotte, North Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "1 killed (Phil Paxson)",
   "people": "Phil Paxson",
   "navigation": "GPS directed him down a road, where he would have likely expected to cross a small bridge",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Widow Says Husband Died Following GPS Off Cliff Where Never-Repaired Bridge Stood 9 Years Earlier",
    "What should have been a day filled with happiness ended in tragedy as a [North Carolina ](https://www.insideedition.com/tag/north-carolina)man driving home from his daughter\u2019s birthday party died after driving off a bridge that had been washed away nearly a decade earlier.",
    "It was a stormy night and Paxson only had a short drive to the house he had recently moved into in suburban Charlotte."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Widow Says Husband Died Following GPS Off Cliff Where Never-Repaired Bridge Stood 9 Years Earlier",
    "What should have been a day filled with happiness ended in tragedy as a [North Carolina ](https://www.insideedition.com/tag/north-carolina)man driving home from his daughter\u2019s birthday party died after driving off a bridge that had been washed away nearly a decade earlier.",
    "Inside was Paxson's body."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Widow Says Husband Died Following GPS Off Cliff Where Never-Repaired Bridge Stood 9 Years Earlier",
    "Phil Paxson's family believes his GPS directed him down a road, where he would have likely expected to cross a small bridge.",
    "Phil Paxson had stayed behind to help his friends clean up after they hosted a party to celebrate his and his wife Alycia\u2019s oldest daughter\u2019s ninth birthday."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Widow Says Husband Died Following GPS Off Cliff Where Never-Repaired Bridge Stood 9 Years Earlier",
    "Phil Paxson's family believes his GPS directed him down a road, where he would have likely expected to cross a small bridge.",
    "He was still unfamiliar with the roads, so his family says he did what many of us do: he followed GPS.",
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   "url": "https://timesofoman.com/article/2830391/oman/good-samaritan-braves-desert-to-rescue-3-year-old-boy-and-parents",
   "title": "Good Samaritan braves desert to rescue 3-year-old boy and parents",
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    "Once they had recovered and felt better, we left the site, and returned to Bidiyah around five am, the foreign family\u2019s health is good and their child\u2019s health is also stable."
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   "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/20/google-maps-lawsuit-man-drives-off-fallen-bridge-following-directions/70915836007/",
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   "url": "https://the-independent.com/news/uk/crime/driver-fined-after-satnav-nearly-takes-him-over-cliff-1788899.html",
   "title": "Driver fined after satnav nearly takes him over cliff | The Independent",
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    "Jones, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, denied the charge at Calderdale Magistrates' Court yesterday but was found guilty.",
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   "url": "https://businessinsider.com/tourists-hawaii-gps-drove-car-into-water-2023-5",
   "title": "Tourists in Hawaii followed the GPS and drove their car into water",
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    "A [video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CrpnmNyAqRy/) by Christie Hutchinson, a witness to the incident, showed the two women buckled into their Dodge Caravan while it was headlights deep in the murky water.",
    "She added that she believed that the tourists were sisters, but that she did not have any other information on them. However, no one was hurt in the incident, she said.",
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    "A [video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CrpnmNyAqRy/) by Christie Hutchinson, a witness to the incident, showed the two women buckled into their Dodge Caravan while it was headlights deep in the murky water.",
    "She added that she believed that the tourists were sisters, but that she did not have any other information on them. However, no one was hurt in the incident, she said.",
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   "url": "https://hackread.com/woman-follows-gps-goes-straight-into-lake",
   "title": "Woman Follows GPS, Goes Straight into Lake",
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   "location": "Little Tub Harbour, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada",
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    "Reported in the [**Toronto Sun**](http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/13/woman-follows-gps-ends-up-in-ontario-lake), the car had an unexpected stop while the female driver followed the instructions from her [**GPS**](https://hackread.com/tag/GPS/) which directed her to keep driving but it all went wrong when the car ended up sinking in a boat launch on Little Tub Harbour close to midnight."
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    "The driver, a 23-year-old woman, got out of the car unhurt and had to swim about 30 meters from the water.",
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    "Reported in the [**Toronto Sun**](http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/13/woman-follows-gps-ends-up-in-ontario-lake), the car had an unexpected stop while the female driver followed the instructions from her [**GPS**](https://hackread.com/tag/GPS/) which directed her to keep driving but it all went wrong when the car ended up sinking in a boat launch on Little Tub Harbour close to midnight.",
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   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-teetering-100ft-cliff-edge-sat-nav-directs-driver-steep-footpath.html",
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    "The vehicle was stopped, and Jones was saved from a nearly certain Darwin Award win by a fortuitously placed wire fence.",
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   "url": "https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-gps-into-disaster%E2%80%8B",
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   "url": "https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-gps-into-disaster%E2%80%8B",
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    "Feature 8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
    "In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the best of him when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England."
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   "url": "https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-gps-into-disaster%E2%80%8B",
   "title": "8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Bellevue, Washington, USA",
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   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Three women",
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    "Feature 8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
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    "Feature 8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
    "In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel."
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    "Feature 8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster",
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   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-teetering-100ft-cliff-edge-sat-nav-directs-driver-steep-footpath.html",
   "title": "Sorry the Sat-Nav told me to drive up here: BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge",
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   "location": "cliff edge off Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle was left teetering on the edge of a 100ft cliff; no one was hurt; BMW hauled away by a four-wheel drive quad bike; driver charged with driving without care and attention",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old delivery driver from Doncaster, South Yorkshire",
   "navigation": "Sat-nav kept insisting the path was a road even as it got narrower and steeper",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep footpath",
    "A recovery team using a four-wheel drive quad bike took nine hours to haul the BMW away from the cliff edge off Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep footpath",
    "He only realised something was wrong when his car hit a fence and came to a stop just inches from a 100ft drop.",
    "A spokesman said: 'Nobody was hurt, but when someone nearly drives off a cliff that shows a lack of care which needs to be investigated."
   ],
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    "# BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep footpath",
    "The 43-year-old, who works as a delivery driver, described the incident as a 'nightmare'.",
    "West Yorkshire Police confirmed they had charged Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire."
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    "# BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep footpath",
    "He said 'It kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I just trusted it."
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   "url": "https://clublexus.com/forums/car-chat/419438-score-1-for-idrive.html",
   "title": "Score 1 for iDrive",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "off Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle left teetering on a 100ft cliff edge; hauled away by a recovery team; driver Robert Jones was charged with driving without care and attention; nobody was hurt.",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old delivery driver from Doncaster, South Yorkshire",
   "navigation": "sat-nav device, which kept insisting the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper",
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    "BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep",
    "A recovery team using a four-wheel drive quad bike took nine hours to haul the BMW away from the cliff edge off Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep",
    "A recovery team using a four-wheel drive quad bike took nine hours to haul the BMW away from the cliff edge off Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.",
    "A spokesman said: 'Nobody was hurt, but when someone nearly drives off a cliff that shows a lack of care which needs to be investigated.",
    "The driver has been summonsed to court for driving without care and attention."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep",
    "The 43-year-old, who works as a delivery driver, described the incident as a 'nightmare'.",
    "West Yorkshire Police confirmed they had charged Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "BMW left teetering on 100ft cliff edge after sat-nav directs driver up steep",
    "Robert Jones said he trusted the gadget and continued to follow its instructions, even when it took him up a steep, narrow footpath.",
    "He said 'It kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I just trusted it."
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  {
   "url": "https://news.yahoo.com/man-dies-following-gps-off-120000892.html",
   "title": "Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "North Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One man killed, vehicle partially submerged in water",
   "people": "Phil Paxson",
   "navigation": "GPS",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "A **[North Carolina](https://legacy.travelnoire.com/listicle/heading-to-north-carolina-heres-how-to-spend-48-hours-in-black-owned-asheville/)** man tragically drove off a cliff to his death on his daughter\u2019s birthday."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "Phil drove off the cliff and fell 20 feet into the ravine.",
    "His body was found by state troopers in his vehicle, which was partially submerged in the water."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "According to **[Inside Edition](https://www.insideedition.com/widow-says-husband-died-following-gps-off-cliff-where-never-repaired-bridge-stood-9-years-earlier)**, Phil Paxson had stayed to help clean up after the party at which family and friends had gathered to celebrate the ninth birthday of his oldest daughter."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "Phil\u2019s family believes his GPS directed him to a place where a small bridge was supposed to have been."
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   "url": "https://mentalfloss.com/article/50508/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-their-gps-disaster",
   "title": "8 Drivers Who Blindly Followed Their GPS Into Disaster",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "West Yorkshire, England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "car balanced on the edge of a 100-foot drop, driver got out safely, car hauled away by a recovery team after nine hours, and Jones was given a court citation for driving without care and attention",
   "people": "Robert Jones",
   "navigation": "satellite navigation system; the path was incorrectly insisted to be a road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "4. Riding up to a cliff's edge In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the best of him when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "4. Riding up to a cliff's edge In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the best of him when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "Jones only realized how wrong he was when his car bumped up against a thin wire fence just inches from a 100-foot drop.",
    "He managed to get out safely, but the car remained balanced on the edge.",
    "It took a recovery team nine hours to haul the car away, and Jones was given a court citation for driving without care and attention."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "4. Riding up to a cliff's edge In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the best of him when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "4. Riding up to a cliff's edge In 2009, Robert Jones' reliance on his satellite navigation system nearly got the best of him when he was driving in West Yorkshire, England.",
    "\"It kept insisting the path was a road,\" he later explained, \"so I just trusted it.\""
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   "url": "https://mentalfloss.com/article/50508/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-their-gps-disaster",
   "title": "8 Drivers Who Blindly Followed Their GPS Into Disaster",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Bellevue, Wash.",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "SUV completely submerged by the time the tow truck arrived, but all three women managed to get out safely",
   "people": "three women visiting Bellevue, Wash.",
   "navigation": "GPS; asked the GPS to re-route and took a boat launch instead of a road leading to the highway",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "5. Making a U-turn into a lake In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "5. Making a U-turn into a lake In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "All three managed to get out safely, but by the time the tow truck arrived, the SUV was completely submerged."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "5. Making a U-turn into a lake In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Next time the mechanical voice tells you to hang a right where none exists, trust your own two eyes instead of making these mistakes:",
    "5. Making a U-turn into a lake In 2011, three women visiting Bellevue, Wash., were out after midnight, unable to find their way back to their hotel.",
    "After asking the GPS to re-route, they took what they thought was a road that would lead them to the highway.",
    "Instead, their SUV ended up sinking into deep water.",
    "The \"road\" turned out to be a boat launch, and the water a lake."
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  {
   "url": "https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Driver_fined_after_following_sat-nav_to_edge_of_cliff_in_West_Yorkshire%2C_England",
   "title": "Wikinews article",
   "incident_date": "2009-03-22",
   "location": "West Yorkshire, England",
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   "outcome": "Driver unharmed, walked to a nearby village for help; vehicle struck a fence on the edge of a 100 foot drop and required \u00a31,000 in recovery charges; driver was convicted, fined \u00a3370 with \u00a3500 costs, \u00a315 victim surcharge, and received six points on his licence.",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old driver",
   "navigation": "TomTom satellite navigation system, which instructed him along a lane unsuitable for motor vehicles",
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "On March 22, 2009, Robert Jones was driving a [BMW 5 Series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_5_Series) and was trying to get to his home in [Doncaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doncaster), [South Yorkshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yorkshire) after staying with friends in [Todmorden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todmorden), [West Yorkshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire)."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "A driver has been fined after following the directions of his satellite navigation system, leading him to the edge of a massive cliff drop in [West Yorkshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire), [England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England)."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "He became so distracted by the sat-nav that he didn't realise his mistakes until he struck a fence on the edge of a 100 foot (30.5 metre) drop.",
    "Jones was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.",
    "He was fined [\u00a3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBP)370 ([US$](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US$)610) with \u00a3500 ($824) costs and ordered to pay a \u00a315 ($24) victim surcharge."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "Robert Jones, who is 43 years old, appeared in Calderdale Magistrates Court on Tuesday, representing himself."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "Waseem told the court: \"The defendant was using a [TomTom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTom) satellite navigation system.",
    "The defendant followed that system to the letter, so much so it led him up a lane clearly unsuitable for motor vehicles.\""
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   "url": "https://yahoo.com/news/another-tourist-accidentally-drove-car-112628488.html",
   "title": "Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2023-05",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Ford Edge submerged in water, driver escaped after grabbing belongings, brought to safety by an onlooker in a nearby boat, unharmed",
   "people": "Unnamed female tourist",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "A tourist following GPS directions accidentally drove her car into deep water at a harbor in Hawaii on Monday night, a month after a similar incident occurred at the same location."
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "Initially, she thought it was just a big puddle but, in reality, it resulted in her driving her Ford Edge into Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, per Hawaii News Now."
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "Initially, she thought it was just a big puddle but, in reality, it resulted in her driving her Ford Edge into Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, per Hawaii News Now.",
    "Hawaii Police said the vehicle ended up in \"deep water,\" with a witness telling Hawaii News Now that the woman reacted surprisingly slowly to her car being submerged in water.",
    "\"She did take some time,\" the unnamed witness told the local news outlet.",
    "\"She ended up grabbing her backpack or purse, all of her belongings that she could grab before she got out.\"",
    "The car was ultimately pulled out of the water and the woman was brought to safety by an onlooker in a nearby boat, the local news outlet said."
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "A tourist following GPS directions accidentally drove her car into deep water at a harbor in Hawaii on Monday night, a month after a similar incident occurred at the same location.",
    "According to [Hawaii News Now,](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/30/witness-another-tourist-following-gps-directions-drives-car-into-hawaii-harbor/) the driver told police that she was following GPS directions when she took a turn that led her down a boat ramp."
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   "url": "https://yahoo.com/news/another-tourist-accidentally-drove-car-112628488.html",
   "title": "Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
   "incident_date": "2023-05-29",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor, Hawaii",
   "hazard": null,
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   "people": "A visiting couple",
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "On May 29, a couple visiting Hawaii followed GPS directions that led their van straight into the harbor water, [per Hawaii News Now.](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/)"
   ],
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "On May 29, a couple visiting Hawaii followed GPS directions that led their van straight into the harbor water, [per Hawaii News Now.](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/)"
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "On May 29, a couple visiting Hawaii followed GPS directions that led their van straight into the harbor water, [per Hawaii News Now.](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/)",
    "The passenger managed to escape out of a window, but bystanders had to rescue the driver and carry her out, the local news outlet said."
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    "# Another tourist accidentally drove their car into deep water in Hawaii after following GPS directions",
    "On May 29, a couple visiting Hawaii followed GPS directions that led their van straight into the harbor water, [per Hawaii News Now.](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/)"
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   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2010-07",
   "location": "Death Valley, California",
   "hazard": null,
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   "people": "Donna Cooper and her family",
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    "\"Well, at 550 feet it was like a little path, and then it was like, go a quarter of a mile and turn left.",
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   "url": "https://npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-t",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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   "url": "https://indiatoday.in/india/south/story/telangana-karimnagar-man-found-dead-in-saudi-arabia-desert-lost-after-gps-malfunction-2587960-2024-08-26",
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   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Ruba al-Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Both men died (succumbed to the harsh conditions of the desert)",
   "people": "Shahbaz Khan and an unnamed colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS malfunction",
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    "A 27-year-old from Telangana working in Saudi Arabia and his colleague lost their lives after getting stranded in the Ruba al-Khali desert, one of the most dangerous deserts in the world."
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   "url": "https://carbuzz.com/fact-or-fiction-have-people-driven-into-lakes-because-of-navigation",
   "title": "Fact Or Fiction: Have People Driven Into Lakes Because Of Navigation?",
   "incident_date": "2024-09",
   "location": "Isle of Palms, South Carolina",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle driven off a marina boat dock and into the water below; the couple narrowly escaped tragedy, successfully rescued with no significant injuries or harm suffered.",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
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    "People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "The latter is exactly what happened in Isle of Palms, South Carolina in mid-September, where a vacationing couple in their 60s accidentally drove their vehicle off of a marina boat dock and into the water below.",
    "Thankfully, the couple didn't suffer any significant injuries or harm, but this situation obviously could've gone very wrong, very quickly."
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    "People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "People Still Following GPS Off Shore In 2024",
    "Even as recently as September 2024, there have been reports of people driving their car into water as a result of either blind trust in their [GPS navigation system](https://carbuzz.com/why-connected-cars-are-becoming-a-privacy-nightmare/)'s directions, or confusion regarding it which led to the mistake."
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   "url": "https://npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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   "people": "Donna Cooper and her family",
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death.",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley.",
    "A search and rescue helicopter found Cooper's family after three days of being lost.",
    "Everyone survived, except Nell, the GPS."
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley.",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked \"Nell,\" the GPS, for the shortest route back to their home."
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked \"Nell,\" the GPS, for the shortest route back to their home.",
    "The GPS told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, Cooper says.",
    "\"Well, at 550 feet it was like a little path, and then it was like, go a quarter of a mile and turn left.",
    "There was nothing there.",
    "She had me running in circles for hours and hours and hours,\" she says."
   ]
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   "url": "https://npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2009",
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death.",
    "A Fatal Error",
    "To test his theory, he went online and checked if the road where the little boy died was on any of the maps used by major GPS companies, like Google Earth, Navteq or TomTom."
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days.",
    "\"She barely survived. The boy did not survive,\" he says."
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    "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days.",
    "Callagan wondered if part of the problem was that out here, GPS companies might be relying on old maps with roads that have long been closed."
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  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213891/Driver-ended-teetering-cliff-edge-guilty-blindly-following-sat-nav-directions.html",
   "title": "Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge becomes first to be found guilty of blindly following sat nav directions",
   "incident_date": "2009-03",
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW car stuck perilously close to a 100ft drop, recovered after nine hours in a \u00a31,000 operation involving a tractor and three quad bikes; driver Robert Jones convicted of careless driving, fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs, and given six penalty points.",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old car delivery driver from Doncaster",
   "navigation": "TomTom satellite-navigation system; driver followed the system to the letter which led him up a lane unsuitable for motor vehicles and two miles later to a cliff edge.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "His accidental off-road adventure happened in March as he drove through Todmorden in West Yorkshire."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "The road to ruin: After nine hours, Robert Jones's BMW is pulled away by a tractor from the cliff in Todmorden, West Yorkshire",
    "His accidental off-road adventure happened in March as he drove through Todmorden in West Yorkshire."
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    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "But with his satellite-navigation system shrilly insisting it was the way, he just kept driving \u2013 until the car hit a fence and became stuck perilously close to a 100ft drop.",
    "Yesterday Jones, 43, was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.",
    "The car was eventually towed to safety in a recovery operation costing \u00a31,000, lasting nine hours and involving a tractor and three quad bikes.",
    "Jones, who delivers cars across the country for a living, was fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs and had six penalty points put on his licence."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "Common sense should have warned Robert Jones that this narrow cliffside path was no place for a BMW.",
    "Yesterday Jones, 43, was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.",
    "Jones, of Doncaster, was driving home after visiting friends when he got into trouble."
   ],
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    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "\u2018The defendant was using a TomTom satellite-navigation system,\u2019 Waseem Raja, prosecuting, told Calderdale magistrates.",
    "\u2018He followed that system to the letter, so much so, it led him up a lane clearly unsuitable for motor vehicles.",
    "He turned down what the satnav suggested was a road. Despite it becoming apparent he was on a dirt track he \u2018trusted\u2019 his TomTom and continued."
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   "url": "https://ksl.com/article/news/utah/elderly-couple-survives-6-days-stranded-in-grand-staircase-escalante/46145818",
   "title": "Elderly couple survives 6 days stranded in Grand Staircase-Escalante",
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   "outcome": "Both occupants survived; Helena Byler was rescued after five days by a local resident on the road and taken to Kane County Hospital, while Gerald Byler was found alive after six days by rescue crews in an abandoned trailer and transported to Dixie Regional Medical Center ICU.",
   "people": "Helena Byler (78) and Gerald Byler (76), an elderly couple from Houston, Texas",
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    "GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE \u2014 An elderly Texas couple survived six days stranded in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument after their GPS led them astray into the desert, according to Alan Alldredge, chief deputy in the Kane County Sheriff's Office.",
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    "GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE \u2014 An elderly Texas couple survived six days stranded in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument after their GPS led them astray into the desert, according to Alan Alldredge, chief deputy in the Kane County Sheriff's Office."
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    "GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE \u2014 An elderly Texas couple survived six days stranded in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument after their GPS led them astray into the desert, according to Alan Alldredge, chief deputy in the Kane County Sheriff's Office.",
    "LeFevre immediately contacted police and transported the elderly woman to a main road, where they met with the sheriff's deputy and she was taken to the Kane County Hospital.",
    "LeFevre found her on the road five days later, Alldredge said.",
    "About a half-mile away, they found Gerald Byler, still alive, in an abandoned trailer near a corral and a few other trailers.",
    "Once found, Gerald Byler was quickly transported to Dixie Regional Medical Center and placed into the intensive care unit.",
    "Helena Byler spent one night in Kane County Hospital and was then discharged and transported to St. George to be with her husband."
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    "Dell LeFevre, of Boulder, was checking on his cattle early Oct. 2 when he came across 78-year-old Houston resident Helena Byler lying on Croton Road severely dehydrated and confused, Alldredge said.",
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    "Helena and her husband, Gerald Byler, 76, had left their hotel in Kanab early Sept. 26 for a day trip to Lake Powell using a GPS device to guide them.",
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   "url": "https://pendigarox.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-gps-steers-you-wrong.html",
   "title": "When GPS Steers You Wrong",
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    "[![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ubq48srLJLNMGBvI5VUwkcBvt-dJJHBkuZE73JVZp4tPwj5c-ayEKhN_dk7cEU88NMwfUsUdMr394f7Spb2sWegyRFWVXq48ZN9mr7sOuQQW5J1F6QuUm5UsUTGT7OOTGEZCb-I4CHTegXM5zisxg=s0-d)](http://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/nextar-dashboard-gps.jpg)[NPR](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion): In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death."
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    "[![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ubq48srLJLNMGBvI5VUwkcBvt-dJJHBkuZE73JVZp4tPwj5c-ayEKhN_dk7cEU88NMwfUsUdMr394f7Spb2sWegyRFWVXq48ZN9mr7sOuQQW5J1F6QuUm5UsUTGT7OOTGEZCb-I4CHTegXM5zisxg=s0-d)](http://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/nextar-dashboard-gps.jpg)[NPR](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion): In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death."
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   "url": "https://idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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   "url": "https://trends.vegas/gps-detour-guides-vegas-to-la-drivers-off-road-deep-into-desert",
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   "url": "https://trends.vegas/gps-detour-guides-vegas-to-la-drivers-off-road-deep-into-desert",
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   "url": "https://news.com.au/technology/gadgets/woman-follows-gps-into-lake/news-story/a7d362dfc4634fd094651afc63f853a1",
   "title": "Woman follows GPS into lake",
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    "According to the [*Toronto Sun*](https://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/13/woman-follows-gps-ends-up-in-ontario-lake), the woman was following a route on her car\u2019s GPS while driving in the dark on a foggy night in Ontario when it directed her to drive onto a boat launch, and she ended up in a lake.",
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   "url": "https://news.com.au/technology/gadgets/woman-follows-gps-into-lake/news-story/a7d362dfc4634fd094651afc63f853a1",
   "title": "Woman follows GPS into lake",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "near Seattle, Washington, United States",
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   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In 2011, a group of young women [drove their SUV into a lake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2QIH2uz3p8) near Seattle \u2014 they blamed the GPS.",
    "# Woman follows GPS into lake"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "In 2011, a group of young women [drove their SUV into a lake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2QIH2uz3p8) near Seattle \u2014 they blamed the GPS.",
    "# Woman follows GPS into lake"
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   "url": "https://news.com.au/technology/gadgets/woman-follows-gps-into-lake/news-story/a7d362dfc4634fd094651afc63f853a1",
   "title": "Woman follows GPS into lake",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Pacific Ocean, Australia",
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   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In 2012, a group of Japanese tourists visiting Australia decided to follow their GPS into the Pacific Ocean.",
    "# Woman follows GPS into lake"
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    "In 2012, a group of Japanese tourists visiting Australia decided to follow their GPS into the Pacific Ocean.",
    "# Woman follows GPS into lake"
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   "url": "https://news.com.au/technology/gadgets/woman-follows-gps-into-lake/news-story/a7d362dfc4634fd094651afc63f853a1",
   "title": "Woman follows GPS into lake",
   "incident_date": "2015",
   "location": "Chicago, Illinois, United States",
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   "outcome": null,
   "people": null,
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Last year a [woman was burned alive](https://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/woman-burned-alive-in-crash-after-driver-apparently-follows-gps-directions-off.html) in a fiery crash in Chicago after her husband drove off a ramp to a demolished bridge by apparently following the GPS navigation.",
    "# Woman follows GPS into lake"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Last year a [woman was burned alive](https://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/woman-burned-alive-in-crash-after-driver-apparently-follows-gps-directions-off.html) in a fiery crash in Chicago after her husband drove off a ramp to a demolished bridge by apparently following the GPS navigation.",
    "# Woman follows GPS into lake"
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   "url": "https://kpbs.org/news/national/2011/07/26/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2010-07",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, USA",
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   "outcome": "Three days lost in Death Valley; everyone survived and was rescued by a search and rescue helicopter",
   "people": "Donna Cooper and her family",
   "navigation": "GPS named \"Nell\"; instructed them to go 550 feet, then turn right, then go a quarter of a mile and turn left, running them in circles for hours",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "A search and rescue helicopter found Cooper's family after three days of being lost."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley after following their GPS."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked \"Nell,\" the GPS, for the shortest route back to their home.",
    "The GPS told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, Cooper says."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://kpbs.org/news/national/2011/07/26/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Stuck for five days; mother barely survived, the little boy did not survive",
   "people": "A mother and her little son on a camping trip",
   "navigation": "Car GPS directing them onto an abandoned mining road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
   ],
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    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "\"She barely survived. The boy did not survive,\" he says."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
   ],
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    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://supercarblondie.com/californians-gps-shortcut-nevada-desert",
   "title": "Californians were left in a pickle after GPS took them on a shortcut through Nevada desert",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Nevada desert, US",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle was badly damaged and abandoned in the desert after being forced to drive over bushes and rocks; occupants were stranded and scared but unharmed and eventually flew home.",
   "people": "TikToker Shelby Easler and friends (Los Angeles tourists)",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, which directed them onto a gravel trail shortcut off-road to avoid Interstate 15 traffic.",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Californians were left in a pickle after GPS took them on a shortcut through Nevada desert",
    "Los Angeles tourists were leaving the Las Vegas Grand Prix in the US state of Nevada, when they were misdirected by Google Maps \u2013 as their GPS \u2018shortcut\u2019 turned into a far more scenic and treacherous route than they\u2019d realized."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "They were left scared, stranded \u2013 and possibly a little suspicious of their GPS directions in the future.",
    "Forced to drive over \u2018bushes and rocks\u2019 before the vehicle broke down, the car was so \u2018scratched up\u2019 that the group was forced to abandon their damaged car in the Nevada desert to fly home."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Los Angeles tourists claim to have been misdirected by Google Maps",
    "TikToker [Shelby Easler](https://www.tiktok.com/@justdoingshelbythings?lang=en) was traveling home from the Las Vegas GP with friends when they put a little too much faith into modern technology."
   ],
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    "Californians were left in a pickle after GPS took them on a shortcut through Nevada desert",
    "Los Angeles tourists claim to have been misdirected by Google Maps",
    "To avoid the traffic caused by a dust storm, they took a GPS \u2018shortcut\u2019",
    "Los Angeles tourists were leaving the Las Vegas Grand Prix in the US state of Nevada, when they were misdirected by Google Maps \u2013 as their GPS \u2018shortcut\u2019 turned into a far more scenic and treacherous route than they\u2019d realized."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Driver_fined_after_following_sat-nav_to_edge_of_cliff_in_West_Yorkshire,_England",
   "title": "Wikinews article",
   "incident_date": "2009-03-22",
   "location": "West Yorkshire, England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver unharmed, struck a fence on the edge of a 100 foot drop; fined \u00a3370 with \u00a3500 costs, \u00a315 victim surcharge, six points on licence, and \u00a31,000 in recovery charges",
   "people": "Robert Jones, 43 years old",
   "navigation": "TomTom satellite navigation system",
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "On March 22, 2009, Robert Jones was driving a [BMW 5 Series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_5_Series) and was trying to get to his home in [Doncaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doncaster), [South Yorkshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yorkshire) after staying with friends in [Todmorden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todmorden), [West Yorkshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire)."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "A driver has been fined after following the directions of his satellite navigation system, leading him to the edge of a massive cliff drop in [West Yorkshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire), [England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England)."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "He became so distracted by the sat-nav that he didn't realise his mistakes until he struck a fence on the edge of a 100 foot (30.5 metre) drop.",
    "Jones was found guilty of driving without due care and attention."
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "Robert Jones, who is 43 years old, appeared in Calderdale Magistrates Court on Tuesday, representing himself."
   ],
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    "# Driver fined after following sat-nav to edge of cliff in West Yorkshire, England",
    "Waseem told the court: \"The defendant was using a [TomTom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTom) satellite navigation system."
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   "url": "https://ledger-enquirer.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car got stuck less than a mile away from Badwater Road, later towed out of the desert three weeks later; one man showed signs of heat-related illness and was taken to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada; both men were issued a mandatory court appearance for illegal off-road driving and the resulting damage to the park.",
   "people": "Two men",
   "navigation": "GPS, wrong turn onto West Side Road",
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The car got stuck less than a mile away, so the men walked a mile to Badwater Road, then 12 miles along another road, officials said.",
    "The park visitors then found the second man \u2014 who was showing signs of a heat-related illness \u2014 and took him to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, officials said.",
    "A towing company used a skid steer machine to remove the car from the desert three weeks later, park officials said.",
    "Both men were issued a \u201cmandatory court appearance for illegal off-road driving and the resulting damage to the park,\u201d officials said."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said.",
    "They drove back and forth on a gravel road for three hours after making a wrong turn onto West Side Road, park officials said."
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   "url": "https://jalopnik.com/british-bmw-driver-follows-sat-nav-to-cliff-edge-darwi-5183905",
   "title": "British BMW Driver Follows Sat Nav To Cliff Edge, Darwin Loses",
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   "location": "near Todmorden, West Yorks, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "car hit a fence at the edge of a 100 ft cliff and was pulled out after nine hours; driver got slapped with a careless driving charge and a potential mention in the Darwin Awards",
   "people": "43-year old Robert Jones",
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    "# British BMW Driver Follows Sat Nav To Cliff Edge, Darwin Loses",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# British BMW Driver Follows Sat Nav To Cliff Edge, Darwin Loses",
    "His mindless progress stopped as his car hit a fence planted at the edge of a 100 ft cliff which Jones would have probably happily driven off if his navi had told him to.",
    "Locals gathered during the nine hours it took for a crew to pull the car from its predicament, no-doubt snickering at the idiot in the BMW the entire time.",
    "As a result of his boneheaded adventures, Jones got slapped with a careless driving charge and will be most likely be given an honorable mention in this year's Darwin Awards."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# British BMW Driver Follows Sat Nav To Cliff Edge, Darwin Loses",
    "The 43-year old Brit was heading for a friends home near Todmorden, West Yorks when the system took him down a steep and treacherous footpath.",
    "On his He-Man scale feat of stupidity, Robert said, \"I just trusted the satnav."
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    "On his He-Man scale feat of stupidity, Robert said, \"I just trusted the satnav."
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   "url": "https://foxnews.com/media/doordasher-delivering-dunkin-drives-water-allegedly-following-gps-charges-filed",
   "title": "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
   "incident_date": "2023-09",
   "location": "Middleton, Massachusetts",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle partially submerged in swamp, driver uninjured and able to leave the vehicle to walk to a nearby home, transported to a hospital at her request, towed from the scene with no leakage",
   "people": "Unidentified female DoorDash driver",
   "navigation": "GPS led her down a dirt road",
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "The unidentified driver said GPS led her down a dirt road and into the water on Friday."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "A DoorDash driver was charged after driving into a swamp in [Middleton, Massachusetts](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/massachusetts), while attempting to deliver Dunkin\u2019 Donuts."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "The driver was able to leave the vehicle and walk through the woods to a nearby home with the Dunkin\u2019 Donuts order in her hand.",
    "When first responders arrived, the vehicle was running and partially submerged, according to the police department.",
    "\"The vehicle was towed from the scene and there did not appear to be any leakage from the vehicle into the body of water,\" the police department said."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "A DoorDash driver was charged after driving into a swamp in [Middleton, Massachusetts](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/massachusetts), while attempting to deliver Dunkin\u2019 Donuts.",
    "The unidentified driver said GPS led her down a dirt road and into the water on Friday."
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "The unidentified driver said GPS led her down a dirt road and into the water on Friday."
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  {
   "url": "https://foxnews.com/media/doordasher-delivering-dunkin-drives-water-allegedly-following-gps-charges-filed",
   "title": "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
   "incident_date": "2022-09",
   "location": "North Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver killed when vehicle dropped into water",
   "people": "Philip Paxson",
   "navigation": "Google Maps navigation over an inoperative bridge",
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "The driver, Philip Paxson, was leaving his daughter\u2019s ninth birthday party and was using Google Maps to navigate on a stormy September 2022 evening, according to the lawsuit."
   ],
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "NORTH CAROLINA MAN DEAD AFTER FOLLOWING GPS TO DESTROYED BRIDGE THAT DROPPED INTO WATER"
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "NORTH CAROLINA MAN DEAD AFTER FOLLOWING GPS TO DESTROYED BRIDGE THAT DROPPED INTO WATER",
    "In a similar incident, the widow of a driver who allegedly followed GPS navigation over an inoperative bridge and to his death [filed a lawsuit](https://www.foxnews.com/us/widow-driver-who-followed-gps-death-sues-google-bridge-owner) against Google last week."
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "The driver, Philip Paxson, was leaving his daughter\u2019s ninth birthday party and was using Google Maps to navigate on a stormy September 2022 evening, according to the lawsuit."
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    "DoorDasher delivering Dunkin' drives into water after allegedly following GPS, charges filed",
    "In a similar incident, the widow of a driver who allegedly followed GPS navigation over an inoperative bridge and to his death [filed a lawsuit](https://www.foxnews.com/us/widow-driver-who-followed-gps-death-sues-google-bridge-owner) against Google last week.",
    "The driver, Philip Paxson, was leaving his daughter\u2019s ninth birthday party and was using Google Maps to navigate on a stormy September 2022 evening, according to the lawsuit."
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  {
   "url": "https://madhyamamonline.com/world/telangana-man-colleague-die-after-losing-gps-signal-in-saudi-arabias-desert-1323121",
   "title": "Telangana man, colleague die after losing GPS signal in Saudi Arabia\u2019s desert",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Both occupants died of severe dehydration and exhaustion.",
   "people": "A 27-year-old man from Telangana (Mohammad Shehzad Khan) and a Sudanese national",
   "navigation": "GPS signal failed",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Hyderabad: A 27-year-old man from Telangana and a Sudanese national died of dehydration after having been stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert, NDTV reported."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Both of them died of severe dehydration and exhaustion, according to the report."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Hyderabad: A 27-year-old man from Telangana and a Sudanese national died of dehydration after having been stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert, NDTV reported.",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, resident of Karimnagar, and his colleague were lost in the desolate Empty Quarter part of the desert, which is known as one of the most dangerous regions in the world."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Shehzad, accompanied by the Sudanese national, got lost in the desert after their GPS signal failed and their mobile phones were left with flat batteries."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ohepic.com/truck-dangles-330-feet-off-cliff-after-gps-error",
   "title": "Truck Dangles 330 Feet Off Cliff After GPS Error",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "NW Shanxi, China",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "a driver and passenger",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Technology really has a way with making people\u2019s lives much easier.",
    "The truck remained hanging on the cliff for about 3 days in NW Shanxi, China."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Technology really has a way with making people\u2019s lives much easier.",
    "The driver and passenger managed to escape while the still could."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://inkl.com/news/two-men-die-in-saudi-arabian-desert-s-perilous-empty-quarter-after-losing-gps-signal",
   "title": "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-22",
   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Two men died from exhaustion and dehydration",
   "people": "Mohammad Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal went off, phone battery died",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Their bodies were found on 22 August, four days after they were last heard from, buried under sand dunes beside their vehicle."
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    "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of [Telangana](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/telangana) and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "An Indian man and his Sudanese colleague died from exhaustion and dehydration after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "An Indian man and his Sudanese colleague died from exhaustion and dehydration after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert.",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of [Telangana](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/telangana) and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Two men die in Saudi Arabian desert\u2019s perilous Empty Quarter after losing GPS signal",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, from the southern Indian state of [Telangana](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/telangana) and his colleague lost their way in the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal went off, NDTV reported.",
    "After Shehzad\u2019s phone battery died and their vehicle ran out of fuel, they were left stranded without food or water."
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   "url": "https://whdh.com/news/dive-team-removes-sumberged-vehicle-after-driver-follows-gps-into-charlton-lake",
   "title": "Dive team removes sumberged vehicle after driver follows GPS into Charlton lake",
   "incident_date": "overnight",
   "location": "Charlton, Mass. / Buffumville Lake",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle entered a lake and was removed by a dive team; no injuries.",
   "people": "A driver",
   "navigation": "GPS; followed his GPS into Buffumville Lake",
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    "CHARLTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A dive team was called in to remove a vehicle after a driver crashed into a lake in Charlton overnight."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "CHARLTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A dive team was called in to remove a vehicle after a driver crashed into a lake in Charlton overnight.",
    "The driver told responders he followed his GPS into Buffumville Lake, fire officials said."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "CHARLTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A dive team was called in to remove a vehicle after a driver crashed into a lake in Charlton overnight.",
    "There were no injuries."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "CHARLTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A dive team was called in to remove a vehicle after a driver crashed into a lake in Charlton overnight.",
    "The driver told responders he followed his GPS into Buffumville Lake, fire officials said."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The driver told responders he followed his GPS into Buffumville Lake, fire officials said.",
    "CHARLTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A dive team was called in to remove a vehicle after a driver crashed into a lake in Charlton overnight."
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  {
   "url": "http://iranmap.com/i/man-follows-sat-nav-to-cliff-edge",
   "title": "Man follows sat nav to cliff edge",
   "incident_date": "March 22",
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
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   "outcome": "BMW hung off the edge of a cliff; driver charged with driving without due care and attention; no injuries or deaths reported",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old driver from Doncaster, South Yorkshire",
   "navigation": "sat nav, instructed him that a narrow, steep path in Todmorden was a road",
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    "# Man follows sat nav to cliff edge",
    "\u201cOfficers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road."
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    "Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.",
    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning."
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    "A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.",
    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.",
    "Police have charged Mr Jones with driving without due care and attention."
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    "Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.",
    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.",
    "The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relied on his sat nav for his job."
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    "A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.",
    "Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.",
    "The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relied on his sat nav for his job."
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   "url": "https://people.com/restaurant-staff-rescues-couple-who-drove-into-water-after-getting-confused-by-gps-directions-8714662",
   "title": "Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
   "incident_date": "2024-09-14",
   "location": "Isle of Palms, South Carolina, USA",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle submerged, two occupants rescued safely by restaurant staff with no reported injuries",
   "people": "An out-of-town couple in their 60s (driver and passenger)",
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    "# Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "Shortly before 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, Sept. 14, employees at Islander 71, a dockside restaurant on Isle of Palms, heard a splash and realized a car had gone into the water, the Isle of Palms Police Department tells PEOPLE."
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    "# Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "Shortly before 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, Sept. 14, employees at Islander 71, a dockside restaurant on Isle of Palms, heard a splash and realized a car had gone into the water, the Isle of Palms Police Department tells PEOPLE."
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    "# Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "The couple, who are in their 60s, \u201cfortunately remained calm and thought to roll the windows down as the vehicle hit the water,\u201d he adds, which aided the rescue."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "The out-of-town driver and passenger accidentally drove down a boat ramp and into a South Carolina marina",
    "The couple, who are in their 60s, \u201cfortunately remained calm and thought to roll the windows down as the vehicle hit the water,\u201d he adds, which aided the rescue."
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    "# Restaurant Staff Rescues Couple Who Drove into Water After Getting Confused by GPS Directions",
    "According to Storen, the driver told officers that he had left the parking lot of the restaurant and got confused by what the GPS in his vehicle was saying."
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   "url": "https://ptcnews.tv/world-news/telangana-man-and-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabian-desert-after-losing-gps-signal-4396568",
   "title": "Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabian desert after losing GPS signal",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-25",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver and colleague died of dehydration and exhaustion; vehicle ran out of fuel.",
   "people": "27-year-old Mohammad Shehzad Khan from Telangana, Karimnagar, and a Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS connection failed and phone battery died",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabian desert after losing GPS signal",
    "--August 25th 2024 10:36 AM",
    "The incident occurred when Shehzad, along with a Sudanese colleague, lost their way in the desert after their GPS signal failed."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabian desert after losing GPS signal",
    "**PTC News Desk:** A 27-year-old man from Telangana, Mohammad Shehzad Khan, tragically died of dehydration and exhaustion in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "The incident occurred when Shehzad, along with a Sudanese colleague, lost their way in the desert after their GPS signal failed."
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabian desert after losing GPS signal",
    "**PTC News Desk:** A 27-year-old man from Telangana, Mohammad Shehzad Khan, tragically died of dehydration and exhaustion in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "Their situation deteriorated further when their vehicle ran out of fuel, leaving them without food or water in the scorching desert heat."
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabian desert after losing GPS signal",
    "**PTC News Desk:** A 27-year-old man from Telangana, Mohammad Shehzad Khan, tragically died of dehydration and exhaustion in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "The incident occurred when Shehzad, along with a Sudanese colleague, lost their way in the desert after their GPS signal failed."
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabian desert after losing GPS signal",
    "## The incident started when Shehzad's GPS connection failed and he lost his way while traveling with a Sudanese national.",
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   "url": "https://yahoo.com/lifestyle/man-dies-following-gps-off-120000892.html",
   "title": "Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "suburban Charlotte, North Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Phil Paxson died, and his body was found by state troopers in his vehicle, which was partially submerged in the water.",
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    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "A [**North Carolina**](https://legacy.travelnoire.com/listicle/heading-to-north-carolina-heres-how-to-spend-48-hours-in-black-owned-asheville/) man tragically drove off a cliff to his death on his daughter's birthday.",
    "The family had recently moved to suburban [**Charlotte**](https://legacy.travelnoire.com/listicle/8-things-to-do-in-black-owned-charlotte-nc/)."
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    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "A [**North Carolina**](https://legacy.travelnoire.com/listicle/heading-to-north-carolina-heres-how-to-spend-48-hours-in-black-owned-asheville/) man tragically drove off a cliff to his death on his daughter's birthday.",
    "Phil drove off the cliff and fell 20 feet into the ravine."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "According to [**Inside Edition**](https://www.insideedition.com/widow-says-husband-died-following-gps-off-cliff-where-never-repaired-bridge-stood-9-years-earlier), Phil Paxson had stayed to help clean up after the party at which family and friends had gathered to celebrate the ninth birthday of his oldest daughter."
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    "# Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood",
    "Phil's family believes his GPS directed him to a place where a small bridge was supposed to have been."
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   "url": "https://indiaherald.com/Breaking/Read/994739781/Telangana-Man-Gets-Stranded-In-Saudi-Arabian-Desert-After-GPS-Error",
   "title": "Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-22",
   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Al Hasa region, Saudi Arabia",
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   "people": "Shahbaz Khan, a 27-year-old man from Telangana, and his coworker/colleague",
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    "Shahbaz Khan, a 27-year-old man from Telangana, and his coworker in [saudi arabia](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=SAUDI ARABIA) died after getting stranded in one of the most dangerous deserts in the world, the Rub\u2019 al Khali, following a GPS malfunction during an assignment.",
    "Khan, who has been working in [saudi arabia](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=SAUDI ARABIA) for the past three years, was employed as a tower technician with a telecom company in the Al Hasa region.The incident happened last week when he set out with a colleague on a routine assignment."
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    "Shahbaz Khan, a 27-year-old man from Telangana, and his coworker in [saudi arabia](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=SAUDI ARABIA) died after getting stranded in one of the most dangerous deserts in the world, the Rub\u2019 al Khali, following a GPS malfunction during an assignment.",
    "A GPS error led him and his coworker deep into the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, which spans across four countries."
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   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-1213891/Driver-ended-teetering-cliff-edge-guilty-blindly-following-sat-nav-directions.html",
   "title": "Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge becomes first to be found guilty of blindly following sat nav directions",
   "incident_date": "2009-03",
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW car stuck perilously close to a 100ft drop, recovered after nine hours in an operation costing \u00a31,000 using a tractor and three quad bikes; driver Robert Jones was convicted of driving without due care and attention, fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs, had six penalty points put on his licence (totaling almost \u00a32,000 out of pocket), and was uninjured.",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old car delivery driver from Doncaster",
   "navigation": "TomTom satellite-navigation system; he followed the system to the letter, leading him up a lane unsuitable for motor vehicles and two miles later to a cliff edge.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "His accidental off-road adventure happened in March as he drove through Todmorden in West Yorkshire."
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    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "The road to ruin: After nine hours, Robert Jones's BMW is pulled away by a tractor from the cliff in Todmorden, West Yorkshire",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "But with his satellite-navigation system shrilly insisting it was the way, he just kept driving \u2013 until the car hit a fence and became stuck perilously close to a 100ft drop.",
    "Yesterday Jones, 43, was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.",
    "The car was eventually towed to safety in a recovery operation costing \u00a31,000, lasting nine hours and involving a tractor and three quad bikes.",
    "Jones, who delivers cars across the country for a living, was fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs and had six penalty points put on his licence."
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    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "Common sense should have warned Robert Jones that this narrow cliffside path was no place for a BMW.",
    "Yesterday Jones, 43, was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.",
    "Jones, who delivers cars across the country for a living, was fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs and had six penalty points put on his licence.",
    "Jones, of Doncaster, was driving home after visiting friends when he got into trouble."
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    "# 'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless driving",
    "\u2018The defendant was using a TomTom satellite-navigation system,\u2019 Waseem Raja, prosecuting, told Calderdale magistrates.",
    "\u2018He followed that system to the letter, so much so, it led him up a lane clearly unsuitable for motor vehicles.",
    "\u2018The path was not designed for motor vehicles yet Mr Jones slavishly continued to follow the satnav system to the point where his eyes and his brain must have been telling him otherwise to such a degree he was not exercising proper control of the vehicle.\u2019",
    "He turned down what the satnav suggested was a road. Despite it becoming apparent he was on a dirt track he \u2018trusted\u2019 his TomTom and continued.",
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   "url": "https://desertusa.com/dusablog/blm-and-nps-rescue-family",
   "title": "BLM and NPS Rescue Family of Five Stranded after Following GPS",
   "incident_date": "2020-01-06",
   "location": "remote location south of St. George, Utah, on the Arizona Strip, Mohave County, Arizona, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "SUV stuck in deep mud, clay and snow; father and teenage son walked 20 miles overnight for help; wife and two younger children sheltered in vehicle; all five rescued without any injuries or loss of life",
   "people": "a family of five comprising a father, a teenage son, a mother, and two younger children",
   "navigation": "smartphone mapping application erroneously routed them onto unpaved backcountry roads on the Arizona Strip",
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    "# BLM and NPS Rescue Family of Five Stranded after Following GPS",
    "On Jan. 6 at approximately 7 p.m., the dispatch center for Mohave County received a 911 call from a Colorado man who said that he and his family were stranded in a remote location south of St. George, Utah."
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    "# BLM and NPS Rescue Family of Five Stranded after Following GPS",
    "On Jan. 6 at approximately 7 p.m., the dispatch center for Mohave County received a 911 call from a Colorado man who said that he and his family were stranded in a remote location south of St. George, Utah."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# BLM and NPS Rescue Family of Five Stranded after Following GPS",
    "Getting lost and stranded in the backcountry in cold weather like this could have proven disastrous, and we\u2019re thankful that the family involved was rescued without any injuries or loss of life,\u201d said BLM Deputy Director for Policy and Programs William Perry Pendley.",
    "The family had traveled 30-40 miles into the backcountry before their SUV became stuck in deep mud, clay and snow at 7,500 feet.",
    "After several attempts to extract their SUV from the deeply rutted road, the father and teenage son decided to set out on foot to find help, leaving the wife and two younger children behind to take shelter in the vehicle."
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    "# BLM and NPS Rescue Family of Five Stranded after Following GPS",
    "ST. GEORGE, Utah \u2013 Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service law enforcement rangers\u2019 knowledge of the remote, rugged Arizona backcountry \u2013 coupled with a solid relationship with the Mohave County Arizona Sheriff\u2019s Office \u2013 led to the successful rescue and reunification of a family of five who became stranded in mud and snow in the Arizona strip last week.",
    "After several attempts to extract their SUV from the deeply rutted road, the father and teenage son decided to set out on foot to find help, leaving the wife and two younger children behind to take shelter in the vehicle."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# BLM and NPS Rescue Family of Five Stranded after Following GPS",
    "The man and his family, attempting to see the Grand Canyon on their way home from a California vacation, became stuck after a smartphone mapping application erroneously routed them onto unpaved backcountry roads on the Arizona Strip."
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   "url": "https://laist.com/news/npr-news/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2010-07",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued after three days of being lost; everyone survived",
   "people": "Donna Cooper and her family",
   "navigation": "GPS device named Nell; led them on a little path, quarter of a mile, running in circles for hours and hours",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "A search and rescue helicopter found Cooper's family after three days of being lost."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
    "The GPS told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, Cooper says."
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  {
   "url": "https://laist.com/news/npr-news/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion",
   "title": "The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Mother barely survived, boy did not survive (killed)",
   "people": "A mother and her young son",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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    "\"She barely survived. The boy did not survive,\" he says."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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    "# The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
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   "url": "https://fudzilla.com/sat-nav-blamed-for-darwin-accident",
   "title": "Sat Nav blamed for Darwin accident \u2013 Fudzilla.com",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Yorkshire, England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW wrecked, motor got stuck and started slipping towards the edge; rescue crews took nine hours to maneuver Jones away from the brink and back on to the main road; driver charged with driving without due care and attention; 1 person unharmed (rescued)",
   "people": "Robert Jones",
   "navigation": "satnav directed him up a \"steep, narrow footpath\" which led to a fence, beyond which lay a cliff and a 100ft drop",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Sat Nav blamed for Darwin accident",
    "According to the Halifax Evening Courier, Robert Jones\n was on his way to visit friends in Yorkshire when his satnav directed him up\n a \"steep, narrow footpath\" which led to a fence, beyond which lay a cliff\n and a 100ft drop."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Sat Nav blamed for Darwin accident",
    "**A bloke** wrecked his expensive BMW and now faces\n careless driving charges after he followed his Sat Nav's instructions to\n drive off a cliff.",
    "His motor got stuck and started slipping towards\n the edge.",
    "It took\n rescue crews nine hours to maneuver Jones away from the brink and back on\n to the main road, after which he was charged with driving without due care\n and attention."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Sat Nav blamed for Darwin accident",
    "According to the Halifax Evening Courier, Robert Jones\n was on his way to visit friends in Yorkshire when his satnav directed him up\n a \"steep, narrow footpath\" which led to a fence, beyond which lay a cliff\n and a 100ft drop."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Sat Nav blamed for Darwin accident",
    "According to the Halifax Evening Courier, Robert Jones\n was on his way to visit friends in Yorkshire when his satnav directed him up\n a \"steep, narrow footpath\" which led to a fence, beyond which lay a cliff\n and a 100ft drop.",
    "Jones said that his Sat Nav insisted the path was a road\n even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so he trusted it."
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  {
   "url": "https://facebook.com/SkyNewsAustralia/posts/an-amazon-delivery-driver-has-been-forced-to-ditch-their-van-after-following-gps/1352825813541680",
   "title": "Sky News Australia",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "delivery driver forced to ditch their van",
   "people": "An Amazon delivery driver",
   "navigation": "followed GPS instructions to drive straight into water",
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   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## Sky News Australia's Post",
    "An Amazon delivery driver has been forced to ditch their van after following GPS instructions to drive straight into water, coast guard officials said."
   ],
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    "## Sky News Australia's Post",
    "An Amazon delivery driver has been forced to ditch their van after following GPS instructions to drive straight into water, coast guard officials said."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## Sky News Australia's Post",
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   "url": "https://afternoontimes.in/india/telangana-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-losing-gps-signal",
   "title": "Telangana Man, Colleague Die In Saudi Arabia Desert After Losing GPS Signal",
   "incident_date": "2024",
   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver and passenger died of severe dehydration and exhaustion after their vehicle ran out of fuel.",
   "people": "A 27-year-old man from Telangana (Mohammad Shehzad Khan) and a Sudanese national",
   "navigation": "GPS signal failed",
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    "# Telangana Man, Colleague Die In Saudi Arabia Desert After Losing GPS Signal",
    "![](https://afternoontimes.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2uko4eeo_telangana-man-_625x300_25_August_24-lfZkvi.jpeg)"
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    "# Telangana Man, Colleague Die In Saudi Arabia Desert After Losing GPS Signal",
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    "# Telangana Man, Colleague Die In Saudi Arabia Desert After Losing GPS Signal",
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    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, a resident of Karimnagar, who had been working in Saudi Arabia for three years with a telecommunications company, found himself stranded in the desolate and perilous Empty Quarter part of the desert, one of the most dangerous regions in the world.",
    "The incident unfolded when Shehzad, accompanied by a Sudanese national, lost his way after their GPS signal failed."
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    "# Telangana Man, Colleague Die In Saudi Arabia Desert After Losing GPS Signal",
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   "url": "https://flickr.com/groups/29995922@N00/discuss/72157627326712180",
   "title": "Death Valley National Park",
   "incident_date": "2010",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued after three days of being lost; everyone survived.",
   "people": "Donna Cooper and her family",
   "navigation": "Nell (GPS), told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, then go a quarter of a mile and turn left",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "A search and rescue helicopter found Cooper's family after three days of being lost."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "The GPS told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, Cooper says."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://flickr.com/groups/29995922@N00/discuss/72157627326712180",
   "title": "Death Valley National Park",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Stuck for five days; the mother barely survived, the boy did not survive.",
   "people": "A mother and son",
   "navigation": "GPS unit on an abandoned mining road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "## GPS + out of date maps + Death Valley = Death",
    "Two summers ago, a mother and son on a camping trip had GPS in their car and got stuck on an abandoned mining road for five days."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://heralddiary.com/wrong-turn-google-maps-sends-family-on-unpaved-road-stranding-them-in-desert",
   "title": "Wrong Turn: Google Maps Sends Family on Unpaved Road, Stranding Them in Desert",
   "incident_date": "11-19",
   "location": "Mojave Desert, between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, US",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "car got stuck in the sand, sustained extensive damage with one tire blown out, rescued by towing trucks; all occupants left alive",
   "people": "Shelby Easler, her brother, and their significant others",
   "navigation": "web mapping application advised them to take a shorter off-road route to avoid significant traffic delays that day due to a dust storm",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A family in the US ended up stranded in the desert after trusting their navigation app.",
    "The incident occurred on November 19 when Shelby Easler, her brother, and their significant others drove from Las Vegas to Los Angeles."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "A family in the US ended up stranded in the desert after trusting their navigation app.",
    "The incident occurred on November 19 when Shelby Easler, her brother, and their significant others drove from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.",
    "They ended up taking a dangerous dirt path in the Mojave Desert, reports SFGATE."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A family in the US ended up stranded in the desert after trusting their navigation app.",
    "Their car got stuck in the sand and sustained extensive damage, with one of their tires blown out.",
    "The group ultimately had to call a towing service that sent trucks to rescue them.",
    "They all left the desert alive but were left frustrated and shaken."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "A family in the US ended up stranded in the desert after trusting their navigation app.",
    "The incident occurred on November 19 when Shelby Easler, her brother, and their significant others drove from Las Vegas to Los Angeles."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A family in the US ended up stranded in the desert after trusting their navigation app.",
    "The web mapping application reportedly advised them to take a shorter off-road route to avoid significant traffic delays that day due to a dust storm."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://newsbreak.com/new-york-post-509648/4495488473686-hapless-amazon-delivery-driver-stuck-in-water-after-following-gps",
   "title": "Hapless Amazon delivery driver stuck in water after following GPS - NewsBreak",
   "incident_date": "2026-02-16",
   "location": "Foulness Island, UK",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver forced to ditch the van before a local farmer helped recover the vehicle; unharmed",
   "people": "Unidentified Amazon delivery driver",
   "navigation": "GPS instructions to drive straight into water",
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    "Website",
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    "# Hapless Amazon delivery driver stuck in water after following GPS",
    "By Chris Bradford,",
    "2026-02-16",
    "A hapless Amazon delivery driver was forced to ditch their van after following GPS instructions to [drive straight into water,](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1750095679728442) UK coast guard officials said."
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    "# Hapless Amazon delivery driver stuck in water after following GPS",
    "The driver was trying to get to Foulness Island \u2014 a Ministry of Defense-owned island used for weapons testing \u2014 before the truck got stuck."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
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    "# Hapless Amazon delivery driver stuck in water after following GPS",
    "A hapless Amazon delivery driver was forced to ditch their van after following GPS instructions to [drive straight into water,](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1750095679728442) UK coast guard officials said.",
    "The unidentified driver was forced to ditch their van before a local farmer helped recover the vehicle."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Website",
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    "# Hapless Amazon delivery driver stuck in water after following GPS",
    "A hapless Amazon delivery driver was forced to ditch their van after following GPS instructions to [drive straight into water,](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1750095679728442) UK coast guard officials said.",
    "The unidentified driver was forced to ditch their van before a local farmer helped recover the vehicle."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Website",
    "New York City, NY",
    "# Hapless Amazon delivery driver stuck in water after following GPS",
    "A hapless Amazon delivery driver was forced to ditch their van after following GPS instructions to [drive straight into water,](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1750095679728442) UK coast guard officials said."
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  {
   "url": "https://newsbytesapp.com/news/india/telangana-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert/story",
   "title": "Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal",
   "incident_date": "2024",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Two men died",
   "people": "A 27-year-old Indian man named Mohammad Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "Lost GPS signal / mobile phone battery drained",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "![Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal](https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l33520240825094202.jpeg)",
    "# Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal",
    "The bodies of Khan and his colleague were found in the sand dunes on Thursday, four days after the tragic incident."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "![Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal](https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l33520240825094202.jpeg)",
    "# Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal",
    "A 27-year-old Indian man from [Telangana](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/india/telangana) and his Sudanese colleague tragically lost their lives due to severe dehydration and exhaustion in [Saudi Arabia](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/saudi-arabia)'s Rub' al Khali desert."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "![Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal](https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l33520240825094202.jpeg)",
    "# Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal",
    "A 27-year-old Indian man from [Telangana](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/india/telangana) and his Sudanese colleague tragically lost their lives due to severe dehydration and exhaustion in [Saudi Arabia](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/saudi-arabia)'s Rub' al Khali desert."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "![Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal](https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l33520240825094202.jpeg)",
    "# Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal",
    "A 27-year-old Indian man from [Telangana](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/india/telangana) and his Sudanese colleague tragically lost their lives due to severe dehydration and exhaustion in [Saudi Arabia](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/saudi-arabia)'s Rub' al Khali desert.",
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    "![Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal](https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l33520240825094202.jpeg)",
    "# Telangana man die in Saudi desert after losing GPS signal",
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  {
   "url": "https://dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/prat-nav-on-driving-rap-18061827",
   "title": "Prat nav on driving rap",
   "incident_date": "Sunday morning",
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorks",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver unharmed, BMW left teetering on the edge of a 100ft drop, rescued after a nine-hour operation",
   "people": "Robert Jones, 43, a driver for a living from Doncaster, South Yorks",
   "navigation": "sat nav, kept insisting the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Prat nav on driving rap",
    "He was visiting friends in Todmorden, West Yorks, on Sunday morning when the accident happened."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Prat nav on driving rap",
    "He was visiting friends in Todmorden, West Yorks, on Sunday morning when the accident happened."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Prat nav on driving rap",
    "He blindly followed his sat nav down a narrow footpath to leave his posh BMW teetering on the edge.",
    "Robert called 999 for help and a recovery team was sent out to rescue him in a nine-hour operation."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Prat nav on driving rap",
    "DOZY driver Robert Jones faces a police rap for almost motoring over a sheer cliff.",
    "Robert, 43, who drives for a living, has now been charged with careless driving.",
    "Robert, from Doncaster, South Yorks, said of the sat nav: \u201cIt kept insisting the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I trusted it \u2013 you don\u2019t expect to be taken nearly off a cliff."
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    "# Prat nav on driving rap",
    "He blindly followed his sat nav down a narrow footpath to leave his posh BMW teetering on the edge.",
    "Robert, from Doncaster, South Yorks, said of the sat nav: \u201cIt kept insisting the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I trusted it \u2013 you don\u2019t expect to be taken nearly off a cliff."
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  {
   "url": "https://dalimss.news/articles/perilous-detour-car-plunges-into-drain-in-hapur-fo-c5q4sg",
   "title": "Perilous Detour: Car Plunges into Drain in Hapur Following GPS Naviga\u2026",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle damaged with jammed doors; four occupants trapped for over an hour, rescued by emergency teams, no casualties, treated for shock and minor injuries",
   "people": "Four passengers",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, directed them into the water-filled drain",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Perilous Detour: Car Plunges into Drain in Hapur Following GPS Navigation",
    "A terrifying incident in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, has underscored the potential dangers of blind reliance on digital navigation tools."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Perilous Detour: Car Plunges into Drain in Hapur Following GPS Navigation",
    "A car, reportedly guided by Google Maps, veered off the road and plunged into a roadside drain, trapping four occupants for over an hour.",
    "The impact caused significant damage to the vehicle, leaving the doors jammed shut.",
    "Trapped inside with the water rising, the occupants were unable to escape on their own, leading to a desperate situation that lasted more than an hour.",
    "Emergency teams launched a rescue operation, working under high-pressure conditions to force the doors open.",
    "After significant effort, rescuers successfully evacuated all four individuals.",
    "Miraculously, no casualties were reported, though the passengers were treated for shock and minor injuries at a nearby medical facility."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Perilous Detour: Car Plunges into Drain in Hapur Following GPS Navigation",
    "A car, reportedly guided by Google Maps, veered off the road and plunged into a roadside drain, trapping four occupants for over an hour.",
    "The passengers were navigating through an unfamiliar route when the mapping application directed them into the water-filled drain."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Perilous Detour: Car Plunges into Drain in Hapur Following GPS Navigation",
    "A car, reportedly guided by Google Maps, veered off the road and plunged into a roadside drain, trapping four occupants for over an hour.",
    "The passengers were navigating through an unfamiliar route when the mapping application directed them into the water-filled drain."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://ndtv.com/world-news/all-about-the-rub-al-khali-desert-where-a-telangana-man-died-6427681",
   "title": "All About The Rub al-Khali Desert Where A Telangana Man Died",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-19 to 2024-08-21",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "two died",
   "people": "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, from Telangana, and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "lost GPS signal, followed by mobile phones with no battery and vehicle running out of fuel",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# All About The Rub al-Khali Desert Where A Telangana Man Died",
    "The incident occurred between August 19 and August 21, and despite efforts to survive, the duo succumbed to dehydration."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# All About The Rub al-Khali Desert Where A Telangana Man Died",
    "27-year-old Indian was among two telecommunications professionals who recently [died in the harsh Rub' al Khali desert](https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/telangana-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-losing-gps-signal-6412473) in Saudi Arabia."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# All About The Rub al-Khali Desert Where A Telangana Man Died",
    "27-year-old Indian was among two telecommunications professionals who recently [died in the harsh Rub' al Khali desert](https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/telangana-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-losing-gps-signal-6412473) in Saudi Arabia.",
    "The incident occurred between August 19 and August 21, and despite efforts to survive, the duo succumbed to dehydration."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# All About The Rub al-Khali Desert Where A Telangana Man Died",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, from Telangana, and his Sudanese colleague were on a mission to repair a cellular tower when they got stranded there following a series of unfortunate events."
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    "# All About The Rub al-Khali Desert Where A Telangana Man Died",
    "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, from Telangana, and his Sudanese colleague were on a mission to repair a cellular tower when they got stranded there following a series of unfortunate events.",
    "Their GPS signal failed, their mobile phones had no battery, and their vehicle ran out of fuel, leaving them exposed to the scorching desert conditions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://jalopnik.com/drivers-claim-that-waze-gps-app-instructed-them-to-driv-1822384644",
   "title": "Drivers Claim That Waze GPS App Instructed Them To Drive Into A Lake",
   "incident_date": "2018-01-12",
   "location": "Lake Champlain, boat launch, Vermont",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep sunk in lake for 10 days; all passengers got out safely and were uninjured.",
   "people": "The vehicle's owner's friends (driver and two passengers)",
   "navigation": "Google's Waze GPS app instructed them to drive off of a boat launch and into Lake Champlain.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Drivers Claim That Waze GPS App Instructed Them To Drive Into A Lake",
    "According to a police report cited by *USA Today*, the Jeep sunk to its sad, watery, semi-avoidable death on Jan. 12."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Drivers Claim That Waze GPS App Instructed Them To Drive Into A Lake",
    "All the owner did was lend it to friends for a sight-seeing trip in Vermont, who, according to *USA Today*, said Google's Waze GPS app instructed them to drive off of a boat launch and into Lake Champlain."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Drivers Claim That Waze GPS App Instructed Them To Drive Into A Lake",
    "All of the Jeep's passengers got out safely."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Drivers Claim That Waze GPS App Instructed Them To Drive Into A Lake",
    "All the owner did was lend it to friends for a sight-seeing trip in Vermont, who, according to *USA Today*, said Google's Waze GPS app instructed them to drive off of a boat launch and into Lake Champlain."
   ],
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    "# Drivers Claim That Waze GPS App Instructed Them To Drive Into A Lake",
    "All the owner did was lend it to friends for a sight-seeing trip in Vermont, who, according to *USA Today*, said Google's Waze GPS app instructed them to drive off of a boat launch and into Lake Champlain."
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   "url": "https://news.yahoo.com/tourists-hawaii-followed-gps-drove-082142329.html",
   "title": "Tourists in Hawaii followed their GPS and drove their car straight into a harbor: 'Pretty sure that was not supposed to happen'",
   "incident_date": "2023-05",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, US",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Dodge Caravan sank into the harbor; two occupants unbuckled and escaped, no one was hurt",
   "people": "a pair of tourists (two women, believed to be sisters)",
   "navigation": "wrong GPS route / GPS directions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Tourists in Hawaii followed their GPS and drove their car straight into a harbor: 'Pretty sure that was not supposed to happen'"
   ],
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    "# Tourists in Hawaii followed their GPS and drove their car straight into a harbor: 'Pretty sure that was not supposed to happen'"
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    "# Tourists in Hawaii followed their GPS and drove their car straight into a harbor: 'Pretty sure that was not supposed to happen'",
    "Eventually, the tourists unbuckled themselves.",
    "The passenger climbed out through the window and waded out, while the driver sat on the window, seemingly unsure of how to escape.",
    "The video also captured the moment the car sank into the harbor \u2014 dipping into the water nose first, then disappearing beneath the surface.",
    "However, no one was hurt in the incident, she said."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Tourists in Hawaii followed their GPS and drove their car straight into a harbor: 'Pretty sure that was not supposed to happen'",
    "A pair of tourists in Hawaii followed a wrong GPS route straight into a harbor.",
    "Christie Hutchinson filmed two women trying to get out of a car partially submerged in the harbor.",
    "She added that she believed that the tourists were sisters, but that she did not have any other information on them."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Tourists in Hawaii followed their GPS and drove their car straight into a harbor: 'Pretty sure that was not supposed to happen'",
    "A pair of tourists in Hawaii followed a wrong GPS route straight into a harbor.",
    "A pair of tourists drove their car into a harbor after mistakenly following GPS directions in Hawaii, and appeared confused when the car started filling up with water."
   ]
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   "url": "https://travelnoire.com/man-dies-following-gps-off-cliff-where-bridge-once-stood",
   "title": "Man Dies Following GPS Off Cliff Where Bridge Once Stood - Travel Noire",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "North Carolina, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Phil Paxson died, his body was found by state troopers in his vehicle, which was partially submerged in the water.",
   "people": "Phil Paxson",
   "navigation": "Phil used GPS, which directed him to a place where a small bridge was supposed to have been, but was washed away almost ten years ago.",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "A **[North Carolina](https://travelnoire.com/listicle/heading-to-north-carolina-heres-how-to-spend-48-hours-in-black-owned-asheville/)** man tragically drove off a cliff to his death on his daughter\u2019s birthday."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A **[North Carolina](https://travelnoire.com/listicle/heading-to-north-carolina-heres-how-to-spend-48-hours-in-black-owned-asheville/)** man tragically drove off a cliff to his death on his daughter\u2019s birthday.",
    "Phil drove off the cliff and fell 20 feet into the ravine.",
    "His body was found by state troopers in his vehicle, which was partially submerged in the water."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Phil Paxson had stayed to help clean up after the party at which family and friends had gathered to celebrate the ninth birthday of his oldest daughter."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Phil\u2019s family believes his GPS directed him to a place where a small bridge was supposed to have been.",
    "However, the bridge hasn\u2019t existed since 2013."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://jalopnik.com/501666500",
   "title": "British BMW Driver Follows Sat Nav To Cliff Edge, Darwin Loses",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorks, UK",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW 5-series car pulled from its predicament after nine hours; driver Robert Jones got slapped with a careless driving charge and unharmed otherwise",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old British man",
   "navigation": "sat-nav, which kept insisting that the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "The 43-year old Brit was heading for a friends home near Todmorden, West Yorks when the system took him down a steep and treacherous footpath.",
    "British drivers have blindly following their navigation systems before, but Robert Jones took it to the extreme, driving his BMW 5-series down a rocky path before a fence barely stopped his plunge off a cliff."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "British drivers have blindly following their navigation systems before, but Robert Jones took it to the extreme, driving his BMW 5-series down a rocky path before a fence barely stopped his plunge off a cliff.",
    "Locals gathered during the nine hours it took for a crew to pull the car from its predicament, no-doubt snickering at the idiot in the BMW the entire time.",
    "As a result of his boneheaded adventures, Jones got slapped with a careless driving charge and will be most likely be given an honorable mention in this year's Darwin Awards."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "British drivers have blindly following their navigation systems before, but Robert Jones took it to the extreme, driving his BMW 5-series down a rocky path before a fence barely stopped his plunge off a cliff.",
    "The 43-year old Brit was heading for a friends home near Todmorden, West Yorks when the system took him down a steep and treacherous footpath."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The 43-year old Brit was heading for a friends home near Todmorden, West Yorks when the system took him down a steep and treacherous footpath.",
    "On his He-Man scale feat of stupidity, Robert said, \"I just trusted the satnav.",
    "It kept insisting that the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://abcnews.com/video/99784242",
   "title": "Video Driver rescued after driving into water after alleged GPS gaffe",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Hawaiian Harbor boat ramp",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver rescued after driving her car into the harbor",
   "people": "A female tourist driver",
   "navigation": "GPS navigation, error leading her to end up at the boat ramp",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Driver rescued after driving into water after alleged GPS gaffe",
    "Police say the driver told them she was using GPS navigation when she ended up at the boat ramp.",
    "For the second time in weeks, a tourist was seen driving her car straight into the Hawaiian Harbor."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Driver rescued after driving into water after alleged GPS gaffe",
    "For the second time in weeks, a tourist was seen driving her car straight into the Hawaiian Harbor."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Driver rescued after driving into water after alleged GPS gaffe",
    "For the second time in weeks, a tourist was seen driving her car straight into the Hawaiian Harbor.",
    "Police say the driver told them she was using GPS navigation when she ended up at the boat ramp."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Driver rescued after driving into water after alleged GPS gaffe",
    "Police say the driver told them she was using GPS navigation when she ended up at the boat ramp."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://fox5vegas.com/2023/12/01/gps-detour-guides-vegas-la-drivers-off-road-deep-into-desert",
   "title": "GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "desert outside of Jean, NV, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "A 14-hour ordeal; $5,000 in damage to the vehicle, car literally falling apart, towed back to Vegas; occupants unharmed and rescued.",
   "people": "Shelby Easler of Santa Monica, California, along with her brother, boyfriend, and another friend",
   "navigation": "Google Maps told them a detour off the closed interstate around a dust storm would save them 50 minutes, leading them off-road deep into the desert.",
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    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "Published: Nov. 30, 2023 at 11:45 PM PST",
    "What was supposed to be a shortcut through the desert, ended up turning a trip from Vegas to LA into a 14 hour ordeal for one California woman."
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    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "What was supposed to be a shortcut through the desert, ended up turning a trip from Vegas to LA into a 14 hour ordeal for one California woman.",
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    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "What was supposed to be a shortcut through the desert, ended up turning a trip from Vegas to LA into a 14 hour ordeal for one California woman.",
    "For her brother, it resulted in his car literally falling apart, $5,000 in damage to the vehicle, and a tow back to Vegas."
   ],
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   ],
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    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "GPS mapping on their phones told them a detour off the closed interstate around the dust storm would save them 50 minutes.",
    "\u201cThey did say though that this actually does happen a lot with Google Maps detours and they are like, \u2018You know if Google Maps tells you to take a detour, don\u2019t do it because you are going to end up in sand, we get calls like this a lot,\u2019\u201d Easler shared."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://fox5vegas.com/2023/12/01/gps-detour-guides-vegas-la-drivers-off-road-deep-into-desert",
   "title": "GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
   "incident_date": "2022",
   "location": "Silver Peak, Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One 72-year-old man did not survive; a couple went missing for a week after their RV got stuck in the mud.",
   "people": "An Indiana man (72-year-old) and his wife/partner road-tripping through Nevada in an RV",
   "navigation": "GPS led them astray up a mountain where their RV got stuck in the mud.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
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   ],
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    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "GPS led them astray up a mountain in the area of Silver Peak where their RV then got stuck in the mud."
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    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "A couple road-tripping through Nevada went missing for a week and the 72-year-old man did not survive.",
    "GPS led them astray up a mountain in the area of Silver Peak where their RV then got stuck in the mud."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
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   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# GPS detour guides Vegas to LA drivers off road, deep into desert",
    "GPS led them astray up a mountain in the area of Silver Peak where their RV then got stuck in the mud."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://timesnownews.com/viral/hawaii-tourists-drive-car-straight-into-harbour-after-following-gps-article-100046159",
   "title": "Viral Video: Hawaii Tourists Drive Car Straight into Harbour After Following GPS",
   "incident_date": "2023-04-29",
   "location": "Honokohau Harbor, Kailua Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "A Dodge Caravan sank into deeper water and was rescued; the tourists (two women) were rescued by a sailboat crew and were unharmed.",
   "people": "A tourist couple / two ladies in search of a manta ray snorkel tour",
   "navigation": "GPS directions, wrong turn leading down a boat ramp into the water",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Viral Video: Hawaii Tourists Drive Car Straight into Harbour After Following GPS",
    "The unusual incident occurred on April 29 in the Pacific Ocean archipelago\u2019s Kailua Kona town after the duo, who were in search of a snorkelling tour, drove their car directly down a boat ramp and into the harbour."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Viral Video: Hawaii Tourists Drive Car Straight into Harbour After Following GPS",
    "Locals in Hawaii said they\u2019ve heard of tourists falling into Big Island\u2019s Honokohau Harbor but had never seen anyone drive straight into the water until recently."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Viral Video: Hawaii Tourists Drive Car Straight into Harbour After Following GPS",
    "A viral video shows a quick-thinking sailboat crew jumping into the water to rescue the stranded tourists from their sinking car, which was pulled back into shallow water before getting submerged."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Viral Video: Hawaii Tourists Drive Car Straight into Harbour After Following GPS",
    "A viral video shows the moment a tourist couple drove their car straight into a Hawaii harbour."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Viral Video: Hawaii Tourists Drive Car Straight into Harbour After Following GPS",
    "A couple\u2019s search for a snorkel tour in the Pacific Ocean archipelago\u2019s Kailua Kona led down a boat ramp but they kept following GPS directions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10374979/Chinese-truck-dangles-edge-cliff-getting-lost-sat-nav.html",
   "title": "Chinese truck dangles over the edge of a cliff after getting lost on sat nav",
   "incident_date": "2022-01-01",
   "location": "Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China",
   "hazard": "cliff",
   "outcome": "Truck dangled over a 330ft cliff, later rescued using three heavy dumper trucks and pulled back onto the road; driver and passenger unharmed after escaping from the cab",
   "people": "A truck driver and a passenger",
   "navigation": "sat nav device; suggested a shortcut up a narrow mountain pass which was too small for his large truck",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Container truck hangs over the edge of 330ft cliff in nerve-wracking footage after driver tried to reverse when satnav took him up narrow mountain road in China",
    "The incident happened on January 1 near the city of Changzhi in Shanxi Province in northern China."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Container truck hangs over the edge of 330ft cliff in nerve-wracking footage after driver tried to reverse when satnav took him up narrow mountain road in China",
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   ],
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    "Container truck hangs over the edge of 330ft cliff in nerve-wracking footage after driver tried to reverse when satnav took him up narrow mountain road in China",
    "Nail-biting footage shows just how close a truck came to plunging off a 330ft cliff in [China](/news/china/index.html) after the driver followed his sat nav up a narrow mountain road."
   ],
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    "Container truck hangs over the edge of 330ft cliff in nerve-wracking footage after driver tried to reverse when satnav took him up narrow mountain road in China",
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    "Container truck hangs over the edge of 330ft cliff in nerve-wracking footage after driver tried to reverse when satnav took him up narrow mountain road in China",
    "The HGV got stuck while following a shortcut suggested by his sat nav device"
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://londonbee.co.uk/tragic-deaths-in-worlds-largest-sand-desert-due-to-lost-gps",
   "title": "Tragic Deaths in World\u2019s Largest Sand Desert Due to Lost GPS",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Rub\u02bf al-Khali, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver and colleague killed (two fatalities); bodies found covered in sand next to their car after four days of being missing, having succumbed to dehydration and exhaustion.",
   "people": "Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, a telecommunications worker from the Indian state of Telangana, and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS failure, lost signal",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Two men tragically lost their lives in the world\u2019s largest sand desert, the Rub\u02bf al-Khali, due to a GPS failure.",
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    "Two men tragically lost their lives in the world\u2019s largest sand desert, the Rub\u02bf al-Khali, due to a GPS failure.",
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    "Both men had succumbed to dehydration and exhaustion, highlighting the unforgiving nature of the desert they found themselves lost in."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "The tragic incident occurred when telecommunications worker Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, and his colleague lost signal while driving through the Rub\u02bf al-Khali a week ago.",
    "After four days of being missing, the bodies of Khan and his Sudanese colleague were discovered covered in sand next to their car.",
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    "Two men tragically lost their lives in the world\u2019s largest sand desert, the Rub\u02bf al-Khali, due to a GPS failure.",
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   "url": "https://lowmanlawfirm.com/blog/driver-distraction-top-5-gps-fails-from-across-the-globe",
   "title": "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   "location": "North Stradbroke Island, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle became stuck in muddy waters 50 yards offshore; crew abandoned the vehicle and walked back to shore unharmed",
   "people": "Three Japanese tourists",
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    "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   ]
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   "url": "https://lowmanlawfirm.com/blog/driver-distraction-top-5-gps-fails-from-across-the-globe",
   "title": "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car crashed through construction signs and barricades, stopped by a sand pit; driver and wife escaped uninjured",
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   "location_evidence": null,
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    "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   "url": "https://lowmanlawfirm.com/blog/driver-distraction-top-5-gps-fails-from-across-the-globe",
   "title": "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle became stuck around the mountain peak; local rescue services airlifted him and his van to safety",
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   "url": "https://lowmanlawfirm.com/blog/driver-distraction-top-5-gps-fails-from-across-the-globe",
   "title": "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   "location": "River Sense in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car plunged into the river, carried nearly 700 feet downstream; driver escaped through window and swam to safety, car completely submerged",
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   "url": "https://lowmanlawfirm.com/blog/driver-distraction-top-5-gps-fails-from-across-the-globe",
   "title": "Driver Distraction: Top 5 GPS Fails From Across the Globe",
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   "location": "Bellevue, Washington",
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   "outcome": "SUV drove into water at a boat launch and was completely submerged; women waded back to shore safely, SUV towed out the next day",
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   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-10374979/Chinese-truck-dangles-edge-cliff-getting-lost-sat-nav.html",
   "title": "Chinese truck dangles over the edge of a cliff after getting lost on sat nav",
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   "location": "Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China",
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   "outcome": "Driver and passenger managed to escape unharmed before rescue. The truck hung over a 330ft cliff and was later successfully rescued using three heavy dumper trucks.",
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   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.co.uk/2026/01/30/business-critical-thinking",
   "title": "Business Critical Thinking",
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   "location": "Death Valley National Park, United States",
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   "outcome": "Jeep became hopelessly stuck in the sand; mother survived, six-year-old son Carlos died",
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   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.co.uk/2026/01/30/business-critical-thinking",
   "title": "Business Critical Thinking",
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   "outcome": "Couple drove off the edge of an unfinished bridge",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Business Critical Thinking",
    "There was the couple who drove past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge in Indiana."
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    "# Business Critical Thinking",
    "There was the couple who drove past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge in Indiana."
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    "# Business Critical Thinking",
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    "# Business Critical Thinking",
    "This heartbreaking story is just one example of what rangers in Death Valley began calling \u2018[Death by GPS](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner)\u2019, reflecting how often they found themselves rescuing park visitors who had followed their GPS devices into peril.",
    "There was the couple who drove past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge in Indiana."
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   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.co.uk/2026/01/30/business-critical-thinking",
   "title": "Business Critical Thinking",
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    "# Business Critical Thinking",
    "A man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "A man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "A man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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  {
   "url": "https://khaleejtimes.com/world/driver-follows-gps-plunges-vehicle-into-lake",
   "title": "Driver follows GPS, plunges vehicle into lake",
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   "location": "Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle sank into a lake; all three occupants escaped unhurt and were rescued/safe.",
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    "Though all the three in the Jeep escaped unhurt, many have questioned the reliability of the Google-owned Waze app which allows users to report accidents and traffic snarls, as well as edit its maps."
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    "A GPS app put a woman and her friends in deep water, literally! Following directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) app, a woman drove her Jeep into a lake whilst on a road trip with her friends in Vermont.",
    "The three friends from Connecticut who were on a ski vacation, were driving in Vermont following the GPS when they realised their vehicle was sinking into Lake Champlain.",
    "\"I was speechless. My first thing was, 'Is everybody OK?' Because this could have had a very bad ending, and luckily everybody was alright,\" Tara Guertin, the owner of the Jeep was quoted saying."
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    "A GPS app put a woman and her friends in deep water, literally! Following directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) app, a woman drove her Jeep into a lake whilst on a road trip with her friends in Vermont.",
    "Though all the three in the Jeep escaped unhurt, many have questioned the reliability of the Google-owned Waze app which allows users to report accidents and traffic snarls, as well as edit its maps."
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   "url": "https://autopostglobal.com/latest-scoops/photo-report/article/71024",
   "title": "GPS Gets You Driving Blindly! 5 Dumb Accidents Why You Should Stop Depending on",
   "incident_date": "2023-04-29",
   "location": "Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle completely submerged within five minutes; occupants narrowly escaped through windows with help from bystanders; unharmed/rescued.",
   "people": "Resident Christie Hutchinson and her husband",
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    "They narrowly escaped through the windows as the vehicle sank, helped by nearby bystanders.",
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    "GPS Gets You Driving Blindly! 5 Dumb Accidents Why You Should Stop Depending on",
    "However, this convenience has sometimes led to unexpected accidents.",
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   ]
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   "url": "https://autopostglobal.com/latest-scoops/photo-report/article/71024",
   "title": "GPS Gets You Driving Blindly! 5 Dumb Accidents Why You Should Stop Depending on",
   "incident_date": "2023-05-29",
   "location": "Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle began to sink; driver got out safely with the help of a flotation device thrown by a witness; unharmed/rescued.",
   "people": "A tourist",
   "navigation": "GPS directions, mistaking the ocean for a large puddle in the darkness",
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    "Mistaking the ocean for a large puddle in the darkness, he followed the directions and only realized the danger as the car began to sink.",
    "Fortunately, a witness threw him a flotation device, allowing him to get out safely."
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    "GPS Gets You Driving Blindly! 5 Dumb Accidents Why You Should Stop Depending on",
    "Just a month later, on May 29, a tourist had a similar accident at the same location."
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   "url": "https://phonearena.com/news/driver-follows-gps-to-his-death_id142999",
   "title": "GPS platform and other factors lead a driver to his death",
   "incident_date": "2022-09",
   "location": "North Carolina, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver Philip Paxson was killed after driving his 2020 Jeep Gladiator into the river.",
   "people": "47-year-old Philip Paxson, a father of two daughters",
   "navigation": "GPS platform, unspecified brand/app, directed the driver down a road to a bridge that had been washed out.",
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    "Ever since turn-by-turn directions became available for free with Android 2.0 and the launch of the Motorola DROID in 2009, many drivers use Google Maps, Apple Maps, or third-party apps (some of which do charge) to safely and quickly get from point \"A\" to point \"B.\"",
    "Now we don't know exactly which GPS platform 47-year-old Philip Paxson was using at the end of last month when he was driving in North Carolina at night from a birthday party for his older daughter."
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    "Ever since turn-by-turn directions became available for free with Android 2.0 and the launch of the Motorola DROID in 2009, many drivers use Google Maps, Apple Maps, or third-party apps (some of which do charge) to safely and quickly get from point \"A\" to point \"B.\"",
    "Now we don't know exactly which GPS platform 47-year-old Philip Paxson was using at the end of last month when he was driving in North Carolina at night from a birthday party for his older daughter."
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    "Without any warning signs or barricades (which had allegedly been washed out by a previous storm), Paxson drove his 2020 Jeep Gladiator on the bridge which took him into the river where he died."
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    "Ever since turn-by-turn directions became available for free with Android 2.0 and the launch of the Motorola DROID in 2009, many drivers use Google Maps, Apple Maps, or third-party apps (some of which do charge) to safely and quickly get from point \"A\" to point \"B.\"",
    "Now we don't know exactly which GPS platform 47-year-old Philip Paxson was using at the end of last month when he was driving in North Carolina at night from a birthday party for his older daughter."
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    "Ever since turn-by-turn directions became available for free with Android 2.0 and the launch of the Motorola DROID in 2009, many drivers use Google Maps, Apple Maps, or third-party apps (some of which do charge) to safely and quickly get from point \"A\" to point \"B.\"",
    "Now we don't know exactly which GPS platform 47-year-old Philip Paxson was using at the end of last month when he was driving in North Carolina at night from a birthday party for his older daughter."
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   "url": "http://sciencefriday.com/segments/recalculating-the-global-influence-of-gps",
   "title": "Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS - Science Friday",
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   "location": "Nevada wilderness, backcountry",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Minivan slid into a ditch and they were stranded; Albert died, Rita survived and was rescued after more than 50 days",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien, a Canadian couple",
   "navigation": "GPS directions led them astray",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "You write about a couple that got stranded deep in the Nevada wilderness.",
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
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    "What happened was, their minivan slid into a ditch, and they were stranded.",
    "Albert died.",
    "Rita managed to survive, I think, something like 50-something days in the wilderness."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "Albert and Rita Chretien, a Canadian couple."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "You write about a couple that got stranded deep in the Nevada wilderness.",
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   "url": "http://sciencefriday.com/segments/recalculating-the-global-influence-of-gps",
   "title": "Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS - Science Friday",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Marble, Colorado on Schofield Pass",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle got stuck immediately in deep snow and they had to call a tow truck",
   "people": "A newlywed couple",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "We were cross-country skiing near the town of Marble in Colorado on Schofield Pass."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "And it got stuck immediately.",
    "And they ended up having to go to the general store\u2013 where Marbles is very far away\u2013 and they had to call in a tow truck to get them out."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "And I talked to his wife, and I said, are you guys on your honeymoon? And she said, yes."
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    "# Recalculating the Global Influence of GPS",
    "## Segment Transcript",
    "And the gentleman said, the GPS told me to go this way."
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   "url": "https://hindustantimes.com/india-news/telangana-man-colleague-die-after-losing-gps-signal-in-saudi-arabias-desert-101724563577998.html",
   "title": "Telangana man, colleague die after losing GPS signal in Saudi Arabia's desert | India News",
   "incident_date": "2024-08",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "2 killed (Mohammed Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese colleague died of dehydration and exhaustion)",
   "people": "Mohammed Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS stopped working and lost signal, leading them to lose their way in the desert",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana, Mohammed Shehzad Khan, and his Sudanese colleague died of dehydration and exhaustion in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana, Mohammed Shehzad Khan died in Saudi Arabia after his GPS stopped working (Representational Image)"
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    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana, Mohammed Shehzad Khan died in Saudi Arabia after his GPS stopped working (Representational Image)",
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   "url": "https://vuedesisles.forumotion.com/t3318-motorist-charged-with-careless-driving-after-following-sat-nav-to-cliff-edge",
   "title": "Motorist charged with careless driving after following Sat Nav to cliff edge .",
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   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW 5 Series came to rest against a fence hanging off the edge of a cliff; driver unharmed, rescued after nine hours, and charged with driving without due care and attention",
   "people": "Robert Jones, 43, a motorist from Doncaster, South Yorkshire",
   "navigation": "Sat Nav system; \"It kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper.\"",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
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    "Motorist charged with careless driving after following Sat Nav to cliff edge .",
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    "Crowds of onlookers gathered on Bacup Road, Gauxholme, to watch as heavy\n machinery was brought in to recover the car."
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    "It took nine hours to recover the vehicle, by which time its owner had been\n charged with driving without due care and attention.",
    "West Yorkshire Police confirmed that officers had found the BMW \"hanging\n off the edge of a cliff.\"",
    "A spokesman added: \"Nobody was hurt, but when someone nearly drives off a\n cliff it shows a lack of care which needs to be investigated.\""
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   "people_evidence": [
    "Motorist charged with careless driving after following Sat Nav to cliff edge .",
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    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, tried in vain to reverse the car\n back to safety."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Motorist charged with careless driving after following Sat Nav to cliff edge .",
    "A motorist is facing a careless driving charge after blindly following his Sat Nav system to the edge of a 100 foot precipice.",
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  {
   "url": "https://wakeup.sg/navigation-mishap-audi-india",
   "title": "Navigation App in Spotlight After Car Falls Into Ditch in India",
   "incident_date": "2025-07-26",
   "location": "near Belapur in Navi Mumbai, India",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "The car plunged into water near the Dhruvatara Jetty; the woman was pulled out unharmed using a boat, and a crane was later brought in to retrieve the vehicle.",
   "people": "a woman driving solo in an Audi",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, which allegedly guided her onto an unmapped route beneath the Bay Bridge",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "On 26 July, a woman driving solo in an Audi accidentally[ drove into a ditch](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/google-maps-misleads-car-into-ditch-in-navi-mumbai-driver-rescued-8954048) near Belapur in Navi Mumbai while en route to Ulwe.",
    "## **Early Morning Drive Ends in Sudden Plunge**"
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   "location_evidence": [
    "On 26 July, a woman driving solo in an Audi accidentally[ drove into a ditch](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/google-maps-misleads-car-into-ditch-in-navi-mumbai-driver-rescued-8954048) near Belapur in Navi Mumbai while en route to Ulwe.",
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    "The car veered off the intended road and plunged into water near the Dhruvatara Jetty.",
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    "## **Early Morning Drive Ends in Sudden Plunge**"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "On 26 July, a woman driving solo in an Audi accidentally[ drove into a ditch](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/google-maps-misleads-car-into-ditch-in-navi-mumbai-driver-rescued-8954048) near Belapur in Navi Mumbai while en route to Ulwe.",
    "## **Early Morning Drive Ends in Sudden Plunge**"
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    "Initial reports suggested she had been following Google Maps for directions, which allegedly guided her onto an unmapped route beneath the Bay Bridge.",
    "## **Early Morning Drive Ends in Sudden Plunge**"
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  {
   "url": "https://wakeup.sg/navigation-mishap-audi-india",
   "title": "Navigation App in Spotlight After Car Falls Into Ditch in India",
   "incident_date": "2024",
   "location": "Badaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Three passengers died after their vehicle fell into a river.",
   "people": "three passengers",
   "navigation": "GPS navigation / GPS directions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In [**2024**](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/misled-by-gps-navigation-car-falls-into-river-from-partially-constructed-bridge-in-up-3-dead/article68906886.ece), three passengers died in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Badaun district after their vehicle, relying on GPS directions, drove onto a damaged bridge and fell into a river.",
    "## **Past Incidents Raise Broader Concerns**"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "In [**2024**](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/misled-by-gps-navigation-car-falls-into-river-from-partially-constructed-bridge-in-up-3-dead/article68906886.ece), three passengers died in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Badaun district after their vehicle, relying on GPS directions, drove onto a damaged bridge and fell into a river.",
    "## **Past Incidents Raise Broader Concerns**"
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    "In [**2024**](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/misled-by-gps-navigation-car-falls-into-river-from-partially-constructed-bridge-in-up-3-dead/article68906886.ece), three passengers died in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Badaun district after their vehicle, relying on GPS directions, drove onto a damaged bridge and fell into a river.",
    "## **Past Incidents Raise Broader Concerns**"
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    "## **Past Incidents Raise Broader Concerns**"
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    "In [**2024**](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/misled-by-gps-navigation-car-falls-into-river-from-partially-constructed-bridge-in-up-3-dead/article68906886.ece), three passengers died in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Badaun district after their vehicle, relying on GPS directions, drove onto a damaged bridge and fell into a river.",
    "## **Past Incidents Raise Broader Concerns**"
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   "location": "Indonesia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "A couple narrowly avoided death as their car plunged off of an unfinished highway.",
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    "In a recent case in Indonesia, a couple narrowly avoided death as their car plunged off of an unfinished highway while following Google Maps navigation.",
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    "In a recent case in Indonesia, a couple narrowly avoided death as their car plunged off of an unfinished highway while following Google Maps navigation.",
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   "url": "https://inkl.com/news/car-stuck-in-death-valley-salt-flat-for-three-weeks-after-driver-follows-gps-off-road",
   "title": "Car stuck in Death Valley salt flat for three weeks after driver follows GPS off-road",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, US",
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   "outcome": "The car became stuck in the salt flat/mud for three weeks until removed with a skid-steer loader. One man was picked up by a visiting family and taken to Furnace Creek; the second man was found suffering heat illness and taken to hospital for treatment.",
   "people": "Two men",
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    "Advnture",
    "Car stuck in Death Valley salt flat for three weeks after driver follows GPS off-road",
    "[In a press release](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm), the National Park Service (NPS) explained that the incident happened on 4 July, when the pair got lost while trying to navigate using GPS."
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    "Two men are due to appear in court after driving off-road at [Death Valley National Park](https://www.advnture.com/features/best-hikes-death-valley) and getting their car stuck in a mud flat, where it remained for three weeks."
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    "One of the pair walked north until 8am, when he was picked up by a visiting family, who took him to Furnace Creek so he could call for help.",
    "The family then headed out and picked up the second man, who was found suffering [heat illness](https://www.advnture.com/features/heatstroke) and taken to hospital for treatment."
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    "Two men are due to appear in court after driving off-road at [Death Valley National Park](https://www.advnture.com/features/best-hikes-death-valley) and getting their car stuck in a mud flat, where it remained for three weeks."
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   "url": "https://news18.com/world/telangana-man-gets-stranded-in-saudi-arabian-desert-after-gps-error-dies-due-to-dehydration-9028697.html",
   "title": "Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error, Dies Due To Dehydration",
   "incident_date": "2024-08",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Al Hasa region, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle ran out of fuel; two men died due to starvation and dehydration.",
   "people": "Shahbaz Khan, a 27-year-old man from Telangana, and his coworker",
   "navigation": "GPS malfunction/error leading them deep into the desert without the GPS device",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error, Dies Due To Dehydration",
    "The bodies of both men were found on August 22, four days after they had set for on their assignment.",
    "First Published:\nAugust 26, 2024, 19:53 IST"
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    "# Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error, Dies Due To Dehydration",
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    "# Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error, Dies Due To Dehydration",
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    "# Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error, Dies Due To Dehydration",
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    "# Telangana Man Gets Stranded In Saudi Arabian Desert After GPS Error, Dies Due To Dehydration",
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    "A GPS error led him and his coworker deep into the Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, which spans across four countries.",
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   "url": "https://foxnews.com/tech/experts-warn-of-death-by-gps-as-more-people-visit-remote-wildernesses",
   "title": "Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit Remote Wildernesses",
   "incident_date": "2009-08",
   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Alicia Sanchez survived (almost died), and her 6-year-old son did not survive",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez and her 6-year-old son",
   "navigation": "GPS, incorrect directions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In August 2009, Alicia Sanchez almost died, after following incorrect directions on her GPS.",
    "Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit Remote Wildernesses"
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   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "In August 2009, Alicia Sanchez almost died, after following incorrect directions on her GPS.",
    "Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit Remote Wildernesses"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "In August 2009, Alicia Sanchez almost died, after following incorrect directions on her GPS.",
    "Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit Remote Wildernesses"
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "In August 2009, Alicia Sanchez almost died, after following incorrect directions on her GPS.",
    "Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit Remote Wildernesses"
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/technology/take-next-u-turn-us-driver-following-gps-plunges-lake",
   "title": "Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
   "incident_date": "Jan 12",
   "location": "Burlington, Vermont, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Three friends (driver and two passengers) in a Jeep Compass escaped unharmed; the vehicle sank into Lake Champlain and was later pulled out of the water.",
   "people": "An unnamed male driver and two passengers, friends from out of state driving a borrowed car.",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
    "The trio - friends from out of state driving a borrowed car - escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the Jan 12 incident."
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    "# Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio - friends from out of state driving a borrowed car - escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the Jan 12 incident.",
    "The vehicle initially slid, but the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
    "The trio - friends from out of state driving a borrowed car - escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the Jan 12 incident.",
    "The vehicle initially slid, but the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank.",
    "\"The only visible portion of the vehicle was its rear bumper,\" as the rest of the car was submerged, the report said.",
    "The Jeep was finally pulled from the water on Monday."
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   "people_evidence": [
    "# Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio - friends from out of state driving a borrowed car - escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the Jan 12 incident.",
    "The unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \"followed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\" the report read."
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   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
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   "url": "https://ycsrt.org/?q=node/678",
   "title": "Parties became lost/stranded following GPS mapped Directions",
   "incident_date": "2016-03-07",
   "location": "near Alamo Lake, Yavapai County, Arizona",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "sedan stuck in a ditch/wash; family of 4 rescued, unharmed",
   "people": "a family of 4, a male and female adult along with their 4 and 1\u00bd year old children",
   "navigation": "GPS mapping unit; mapping led them in the wrong direction and eventually to a point where their vehicle became stranded in a wash",
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    "On March 7, 2016, around 11:20 PM, the Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office was notified that a family of 4, a male and female adult along with their 4 and 1\u00bd year old children, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake."
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    "On March 7, 2016, around 11:20 PM, the Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office was notified that a family of 4, a male and female adult along with their 4 and 1\u00bd year old children, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "The family\u2019s sedan was stuck in a ditch and they were concerned that an overnight stay would place the family in danger.",
    "Just before 3 AM, the SYCSRT ground crew contacted the family and provided transportation out of the nighttime wilderness to the Alamo Camp Ground where they met up with other family members."
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    "On March 7, 2016, around 11:20 PM, the Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office was notified that a family of 4, a male and female adult along with their 4 and 1\u00bd year old children, were lost and stranded near Alamo Lake."
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    "The adults involved told deputies they were using a GPS mapping unit to guide them to a camp ground near the lake.",
    "Instead, the mapping led them in the wrong direction and eventually to a point where their vehicle became stranded in a wash."
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  {
   "url": "https://ycsrt.org/?q=node/678",
   "title": "Parties became lost/stranded following GPS mapped Directions",
   "incident_date": "2016-02-27",
   "location": "east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge, near Verde River, Arizona",
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   "outcome": "Cadillac Escalade found unoccupied; 68-year-old woman found disoriented with scratches and bruises, transported to a Phoenix area hospital for treatment",
   "people": "68-year-old wife of a Mesa resident",
   "navigation": "phone application to track the OnStar service; GPS directions indicated she was on a country road heading towards pavement but she actually was driving further from civilization",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "On February 27, 2016, around 6PM, a Mesa resident called YCSO for help to find his 68-year-old wife as she was apparently lost near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge."
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    "On February 27, 2016, around 6PM, a Mesa resident called YCSO for help to find his 68-year-old wife as she was apparently lost near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge.",
    "After about 4 hours, GPS directions indicated she was on a country road heading towards pavement but she\n\n actually was driving further from civilization.",
    "Fortunately, just before the signal was lost, her husband tracked and recorded the location which placed the vehicle near the Verde River south of Sheeps Bridge."
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    "Just before 8:30 PM, the DPS Ranger Crew found the vehicle, but it was unoccupied.",
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    "On February 27, 2016, around 6PM, a Mesa resident called YCSO for help to find his 68-year-old wife as she was apparently lost near the east end of Bloody Basin Road, near Sheeps Bridge."
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    "As she drove, he checked her location periodically using a phone application to track the OnStar service in the Cadillac Escalade.",
    "After about 4 hours, GPS directions indicated she was on a country road heading towards pavement but she\n\n actually was driving further from civilization."
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  {
   "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/25/two-men-die-losing-gps-worlds-largest-area-continuous-sand-21486746",
   "title": "Two men die after losing GPS in world's largest sand desert",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Rub\u02bf al-Khali, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Both men died of dehydration and exhaustion after their car ran out of fuel and they became stranded without food or water.",
   "people": "Mohammad Shehzad Khan and an unnamed Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "Lost GPS signal while driving through the desert",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Two men have died after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert so vast it\u2019s called the Empty Quarter.",
    "Sand stretches for 250,000 square miles in Rub\u02bf al-Khali, the largest area of continuous sand on earth, where dunes reach up to 2,000ft high."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Two men have died after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert so vast it\u2019s called the Empty Quarter.",
    "They were stranded with no food or water.",
    "Both their bodies were found covered in sand beside their vehicle on Thursday, four days after they were last seen.",
    "Indian national Khan and his unnamed Sudanese colleague had both died of dehydration and exhaustion."
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    "Two men have died after getting lost in a Saudi Arabian desert so vast it\u2019s called the Empty Quarter.",
    "But telecommunications worker Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, and a colleague lost signal while driving through the desert a week ago, India\u2019s [NDTV](https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/telangana-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-losing-gps-signal-6412473) reported.",
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    "But telecommunications worker Mohammad Shehzad Khan, 27, and a colleague lost signal while driving through the desert a week ago, India\u2019s [NDTV](https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/telangana-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-losing-gps-signal-6412473) reported."
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   "url": "https://mytour.vn/en/blog/lifestyle/10-instances-where-gps-failed-with-devastating-results-mytour.html",
   "title": "10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
   "incident_date": "2009-07",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, eastern California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Six-year-old boy killed (died two days prior to rescue), 28-year-old nurse Alicia Sanchez rescued severely dehydrated, Jeep Cherokee stuck in sand",
   "people": "28-year-old nurse Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son",
   "navigation": "GPS directed them onto a secluded road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In the summer of 2009, 28-year-old nurse Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son were driving through the sweltering, barren expanse of Death Valley National Park in eastern California when their GPS directed them onto a secluded road.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 10. Tragic Death After GPS Leaves Mother and Son Stranded"
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    "In the summer of 2009, 28-year-old nurse Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son were driving through the sweltering, barren expanse of Death Valley National Park in eastern California when their GPS directed them onto a secluded road.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 10. Tragic Death After GPS Leaves Mother and Son Stranded"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Exhausted and severely dehydrated, Sanchez collapsed into the park ranger\u2019s arms, while her son\u2019s lifeless body remained slumped in the front seat.",
    "The two had survived for days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts, and cheese sandwiches, but tragically, the boy had died two days prior to her rescue.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 10. Tragic Death After GPS Leaves Mother and Son Stranded"
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    "In the summer of 2009, 28-year-old nurse Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son were driving through the sweltering, barren expanse of Death Valley National Park in eastern California when their GPS directed them onto a secluded road.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 10. Tragic Death After GPS Leaves Mother and Son Stranded"
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    "In the summer of 2009, 28-year-old nurse Alicia Sanchez and her six-year-old son were driving through the sweltering, barren expanse of Death Valley National Park in eastern California when their GPS directed them onto a secluded road.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 10. Tragic Death After GPS Leaves Mother and Son Stranded"
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   "url": "https://mytour.vn/en/blog/lifestyle/10-instances-where-gps-failed-with-devastating-results-mytour.html",
   "title": "10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia",
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   "outcome": "Three unharmed occupants, Hyundai Getz rental car submerged in 2 meters of water",
   "people": "Three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS neglected to mention the 15 kilometers (9 miles) of water and mud between the two locations and led them to drive into the ocean",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists vacationing in Australia embarked on a road trip to North Stradbroke Island.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 9. Japanese Tourists Drive Their Vehicle Into the Ocean"
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   "location_evidence": [
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists vacationing in Australia embarked on a road trip to North Stradbroke Island.",
    "While driving their Hyundai Getz rental car from Queensland, the trio began to notice the solid gravel road turning into mud.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 9. Japanese Tourists Drive Their Vehicle Into the Ocean"
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Things only worsened when the tide began to rise, forcing them to abandon their vehicle.",
    "Just four hours later, their car was left submerged in 2 meters (6.6 feet) of water.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 9. Japanese Tourists Drive Their Vehicle Into the Ocean"
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    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists vacationing in Australia embarked on a road trip to North Stradbroke Island.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 9. Japanese Tourists Drive Their Vehicle Into the Ocean"
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    "Trusting their GPS, they believed they could drive directly from the mainland to the island.",
    "Unfortunately, the GPS neglected to mention the 15 kilometers (9 miles) of water and mud between the two locations.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 9. Japanese Tourists Drive Their Vehicle Into the Ocean"
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   "url": "https://mytour.vn/en/blog/lifestyle/10-instances-where-gps-failed-with-devastating-results-mytour.html",
   "title": "10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver unharmed, BMW left teetering on the edge of a cliff",
   "people": "43-year-old Robert Jones",
   "navigation": "GPS instructed him off the main road and directed him down a steep and narrow path and onto a footpath",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In 2009, 43-year-old Robert Jones from England came dangerously close to plunging to his death off a 30-meter (100 ft) cliff after blindly following his GPS instructions.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 7. Driver Finds Himself Teetering On the Edge of a Cliff After Following GPS Directions"
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Police responded to reports of a BMW teetering on the edge of a cliff along Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 7. Driver Finds Himself Teetering On the Edge of a Cliff After Following GPS Directions"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "In 2009, 43-year-old Robert Jones from England came dangerously close to plunging to his death off a 30-meter (100 ft) cliff after blindly following his GPS instructions.",
    "Police responded to reports of a BMW teetering on the edge of a cliff along Bacup Road in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 7. Driver Finds Himself Teetering On the Edge of a Cliff After Following GPS Directions"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "In 2009, 43-year-old Robert Jones from England came dangerously close to plunging to his death off a 30-meter (100 ft) cliff after blindly following his GPS instructions.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 7. Driver Finds Himself Teetering On the Edge of a Cliff After Following GPS Directions"
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    "Directed off the main road, he drove down a steep and narrow path before realizing the peril and stopping just in time.",
    "He followed the GPS even when it directed him onto a footpath, confusing it for a road.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 7. Driver Finds Himself Teetering On the Edge of a Cliff After Following GPS Directions"
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   "url": "https://mytour.vn/en/blog/lifestyle/10-instances-where-gps-failed-with-devastating-results-mytour.html",
   "title": "10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
   "incident_date": "2015-03",
   "location": "Indiana, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Zohra Hussain killed, Iftikhar Hussain survived, Nissan Sentra fell off bridge and ignited in flames",
   "people": "64-year-old Iftikhar Hussain and his 51-year-old wife, Zohra",
   "navigation": "GPS directed them onto a bridge that had been closed for repairs since 2009",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In March 2015, 64-year-old Iftikhar Hussain and his 51-year-old wife, Zohra, left their Chicago home to visit family in Indiana.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 6. Woman Dies After Husband Drives Off a Bridge"
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    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 6. Woman Dies After Husband Drives Off a Bridge"
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    "The car plunged off the bridge, falling more than 11 meters (37 feet) and igniting in flames shortly after impact.",
    "Miraculously, Iftikhar survived the fall and managed to escape the vehicle, but his wife was not as fortunate.",
    "Trapped in the wreckage, Zohra couldn't escape and tragically perished in the ensuing fire.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 6. Woman Dies After Husband Drives Off a Bridge"
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    "In March 2015, 64-year-old Iftikhar Hussain and his 51-year-old wife, Zohra, left their Chicago home to visit family in Indiana.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 6. Woman Dies After Husband Drives Off a Bridge"
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    "While following GPS directions in their Nissan Sentra, they encountered a bridge that had been closed for repairs since 2009.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 6. Woman Dies After Husband Drives Off a Bridge"
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   "url": "https://mytour.vn/en/blog/lifestyle/10-instances-where-gps-failed-with-devastating-results-mytour.html",
   "title": "10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
   "incident_date": "2011-03",
   "location": "Desert mountains, en route to Las Vegas, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Albert Chretien died, Rita Chretien rescued after 49 days, Chevrolet Astro van stuck in mud",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien",
   "navigation": "GPS system suggested a shortcut that did not account for seasonal conditions, leading them onto a dangerous, remote road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In March 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left British Columbia in their Chevrolet Astro van, heading toward a convention in Las Vegas.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 3. GPS Shortcut Leads to Tragic Death on a Mountain"
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    "In March 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left British Columbia in their Chevrolet Astro van, heading toward a convention in Las Vegas.",
    "Unaware that GPS systems don't account for seasonal conditions, they soon found themselves on a dangerous, remote road through the desert mountains.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 3. GPS Shortcut Leads to Tragic Death on a Mountain"
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    "After 49 days of isolation, she had resigned herself to dying alone in the wilderness. Ironically, it was on that very day that she was finally rescued.",
    "He ended up climbing unnecessarily and was making his way to the peak of a mountain when he tragically passed away.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 3. GPS Shortcut Leads to Tragic Death on a Mountain"
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    "In March 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien left British Columbia in their Chevrolet Astro van, heading toward a convention in Las Vegas.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 3. GPS Shortcut Leads to Tragic Death on a Mountain"
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    "Along the way, they decided to compare their planned route with the GPS and take what they thought would be a shortcut.",
    "Unaware that GPS systems don't account for seasonal conditions, they soon found themselves on a dangerous, remote road through the desert mountains.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 3. GPS Shortcut Leads to Tragic Death on a Mountain"
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   "url": "https://mytour.vn/en/blog/lifestyle/10-instances-where-gps-failed-with-devastating-results-mytour.html",
   "title": "10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
   "incident_date": "2011-06",
   "location": "Mercer Slough in Bellevue, Washington, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Three women unharmed, Mercedes-Benz rental SUV entirely submerged",
   "people": "Three young women",
   "navigation": "GPS led the driver down a boat launch and into a lake",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In June 2011, three young women narrowly escaped a sinking Mercedes-Benz rental SUV after following their GPS down a boat launch and into Mercer Slough in Bellevue, Washington.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 2. Three Women Follow GPS Into A Lake"
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   "location_evidence": [
    "In June 2011, three young women narrowly escaped a sinking Mercedes-Benz rental SUV after following their GPS down a boat launch and into Mercer Slough in Bellevue, Washington.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 2. Three Women Follow GPS Into A Lake"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "All three women managed to escape without injury.",
    "However, the car was entirely submerged and had to be retrieved from the water by a tow truck.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 2. Three Women Follow GPS Into A Lake"
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   "people_evidence": [
    "In June 2011, three young women narrowly escaped a sinking Mercedes-Benz rental SUV after following their GPS down a boat launch and into Mercer Slough in Bellevue, Washington.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 2. Three Women Follow GPS Into A Lake"
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    "Unfortunately, the GPS had led her down the boat launch, causing the SUV to crash into the lake.",
    "# 10 Instances Where GPS Failed with Devastating Results",
    "## 2. Three Women Follow GPS Into A Lake"
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   "url": "https://podscan.fm/podcasts/the-crux-true-survival-stories/episodes/9-days-stranded-in-the-nevada-wilderness-the-wrong-turn-that-took-a-life-e-240",
   "title": "9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240 - The CRUX: True Survival Stories - Podcast Episode - Podscan.fm",
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   "location": "Nevada wilderness, Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States",
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   "outcome": "RV and Kia stuck in remote desert terrain; Ronnie Barker died after nine days, Beverly Barker survived and was rescued.",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "![9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240](https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6215cda8-011d-4ccd-9fe8-c389912a62af/0194d672-fecd-4793-93fe-43342b5ccca9/3000x3000/the-crux-true-survival-stories-podcast.jpg?aid=rss_feed)",
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    "![9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240](https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6215cda8-011d-4ccd-9fe8-c389912a62af/0194d672-fecd-4793-93fe-43342b5ccca9/3000x3000/the-crux-true-survival-stories-podcast.jpg?aid=rss_feed)",
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    "![9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240](https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6215cda8-011d-4ccd-9fe8-c389912a62af/0194d672-fecd-4793-93fe-43342b5ccca9/3000x3000/the-crux-true-survival-stories-podcast.jpg?aid=rss_feed)",
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    "![9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240](https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6215cda8-011d-4ccd-9fe8-c389912a62af/0194d672-fecd-4793-93fe-43342b5ccca9/3000x3000/the-crux-true-survival-stories-podcast.jpg?aid=rss_feed)",
    "The highway option on the GPS was not selected, meaning that the system was routing them through county roads."
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   "url": "https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/saudi-arabia/telangana-man-and-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-running-out-of-fuel-and-mobile-battery/articleshow/112800111.cms",
   "title": "Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
   "incident_date": "2024-08",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
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   "outcome": "Two men died from dehydration",
   "people": "A 27-year-old man from Telangana (Mohammad Shehzad Khan) and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal failed, mobile phones ran out of battery, and vehicle ran out of fuel",
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
    "The incident occurred sometime between August 19 and August 21, while they were on a mission to repair a cellular tower."
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
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    "Family members of Mohammad Shehzad Khan confirmed the heartbreaking news."
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
    "Their GPS signal failed, and they ran out of battery and fuel while on a mission to repair a cellular tower.",
    "Their GPS signal failed, their mobile phones ran out of battery, and their vehicle ran out of fuel, leaving them stranded."
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   "url": "https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-man-follows-gps-stuck-in-marina",
   "title": "Surrey semi-truck driver follows GPS off boat launch and ends up in the water",
   "incident_date": "2024-04",
   "location": "Osoyoos Marina, British Columbia, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Semi-truck partially submerged; 54-year-old male driver trapped in the cab but uninjured and rescued by local fire crews",
   "people": "A 54-year-old male driver from Surrey",
   "navigation": "GPS guidance inadvertently took him down the boat ramp",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Surrey semi-truck driver follows GPS off boat launch and ends up in the water",
    "Apr 30 2024, 11:19 pm",
    "Osoyoos RCMP told Daily Hive that at about 4:20 am on Saturday it was called to help Osoyoos Fire Rescue with a semi-truck that was partially submerged in the Osoyoos Marina."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Surrey semi-truck driver follows GPS off boat launch and ends up in the water",
    "Osoyoos RCMP told Daily Hive that at about 4:20 am on Saturday it was called to help Osoyoos Fire Rescue with a semi-truck that was partially submerged in the Osoyoos Marina."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Surrey semi-truck driver follows GPS off boat launch and ends up in the water",
    "Osoyoos RCMP told Daily Hive that at about 4:20 am on Saturday it was called to help Osoyoos Fire Rescue with a semi-truck that was partially submerged in the Osoyoos Marina.",
    "\u201cThankfully the truck did not become fully submerged, and the driver was uninjured although trapped in the cab of the truck until a couple local fire crews swam out to rescue him.\u201d"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Surrey semi-truck driver follows GPS off boat launch and ends up in the water",
    "The 54-year-old male driver from Surrey was following his GPS guidance when it \u201cinadvertently\u201d took him down the boat ramp, police said."
   ],
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    "# Surrey semi-truck driver follows GPS off boat launch and ends up in the water",
    "A semi-truck cab was spotted nearly submerged in BC waters, and police say, \u201cThis was a case of trusting a GPS that took the driver down the wrong path. Or, in this case, ramp.\u201d",
    "The 54-year-old male driver from Surrey was following his GPS guidance when it \u201cinadvertently\u201d took him down the boat ramp, police said."
   ]
  },
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   "url": "https://autoevolution.com/news/driver-claims-gps-navigation-sent-him-in-a-lake-so-he-obeyed-158385.html",
   "title": "Driver Claims GPS Navigation Sent Him in a Lake, So He Obeyed",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Buffumville Lake in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle almost entirely submerged in about 10 feet of water in the lake; driver self-extricated, reached the shore, was transported to a Worcester hospital for evaluation, and the vehicle was subsequently recovered by dive teams.",
   "people": "An American driver / operator",
   "navigation": "GPS navigation embedded into the car\u2019s infotainment, instructing the driver to drive on a route that led into a river/lake",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
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    "If you still needed more evidence that always trusting a navigation app is a bad thing, here\u2019s the story of an American driver who ended up with his car in Buffumville Lake in Charlton after blindly following GPS instructions."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "And the Charlton Fire Department explains the driver managed to get out of the car on his own, eventually reaching the shore and waiting for the emergency teams to pull out the vehicle from the lake as well.",
    "Local officials claim the vehicle was almost entirely submerged into water, as it was pulled from about 10 feet (a little over 3 meters) in the lake.",
    "\u201c*@charltonfirema was dispatched this morning to Buffumville Lake boat launch for reports of a vehicle in the water."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "If you still needed more evidence that always trusting a navigation app is a bad thing, here\u2019s the story of an American driver who ended up with his car in Buffumville Lake in Charlton after blindly following GPS instructions.",
    "The operator who self extricated himself was transported to a Worcester hospital for evaluation."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "If you still needed more evidence that always trusting a navigation app is a bad thing, here\u2019s the story of an American driver who ended up with his car in Buffumville Lake in Charlton after blindly following GPS instructions.",
    "In other words, the man was driving on the route suggested by the [GPS navigation](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/garmin-launches-its-largest-gps-navigator-built-with-rvs-in-mind-154123.html) in his car when he suddenly fell into a river, according to information shared by the local authorities.",
    "At first glance, the man wasn\u2019t using a navigation app but a GPS system embedded into the car\u2019s infotainment."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/don-t-let-a-gps-navigate-you-into-the-valley-of-death",
   "title": "Don't let a GPS navigate you into the valley of death",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Death Valley, California and Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued by helicopter after three days",
   "people": "A family",
   "navigation": "GPS navigator, over-reliance",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
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    "GPS-based navigation has become a common, valued tool used by millions of motorists, bicyclists, and hikers.",
    "NPR ran a story today on a family caught in Death Valley due to an over-reliance on their GPS navigator."
   ],
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    "GPS-based navigation has become a common, valued tool used by millions of motorists, bicyclists, and hikers.",
    "Fortunately, they were found by helicopter after three days."
   ],
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    "GPS-based navigation has become a common, valued tool used by millions of motorists, bicyclists, and hikers.",
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    "GPS-based navigation has become a common, valued tool used by millions of motorists, bicyclists, and hikers.",
    "NPR ran a story today on a family caught in Death Valley due to an over-reliance on their GPS navigator."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://article.wn.com/view/2026/02/17/Amazon_Delivery_Deliver_Drives_Van_Into_Water_Following_GPS_",
   "title": "Amazon Delivery Deliver Drives Van Into Water Following GPS In Britain",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Broomway path in Essex, United Kingdom",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Amazon delivery van became stuck",
   "people": "Amazon delivery driver",
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    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters."
   ],
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   ],
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   ],
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    "An Amazon delivery van became stuck on the historic Broomway path in Essex after the driver followed GPS instructions into rising tide waters."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://advnture.com/news/car-stuck-in-death-valley-salt-flat-for-three-weeks-after-driver-follows-gps-off-road",
   "title": "Car stuck in Death Valley salt flat for three weeks after driver follows GPS off-road",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": null,
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Two men are due to appear in court after driving off-road at [Death Valley National Park](https://www.advnture.com/features/best-hikes-death-valley) and getting their car stuck in a mud flat, where it remained for three weeks.",
    "[In a press release](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm), the National Park Service (NPS) explained that the incident happened on 4 July, when the pair got lost while trying to navigate using GPS."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Two men are due to appear in court after driving off-road at [Death Valley National Park](https://www.advnture.com/features/best-hikes-death-valley) and getting their car stuck in a mud flat, where it remained for three weeks.",
    "[In a press release](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm), the National Park Service (NPS) explained that the incident happened on 4 July, when the pair got lost while trying to navigate using GPS."
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": null,
   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
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   "outcome": null,
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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  {
   "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/t-man-colleague-die-in-saudi-desert-as-gps-fails/articleshow/112789378.cms",
   "title": "No fuel or GPS, Telangana man, colleague die in Saudi desert",
   "incident_date": "2024-08",
   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Two men died due to acute dehydration and exhaustion.",
   "people": "A 27-year-old man from Telangana (Mohammad Shehzad Khan) and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal failed",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "No fuel or GPS, Telangana man, colleague die in Saudi desert",
    "According to family members of Mohammad Shehzad Khan, the incident took place between Aug 19 and Aug 21 when the duo \u2014 both telecommunications professionals \u2014 had gone to the \u2018Empty Quarter\u2019 desert to fix a cellular tower."
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    "No fuel or GPS, Telangana man, colleague die in Saudi desert",
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    "No fuel or GPS, Telangana man, colleague die in Saudi desert",
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    "No fuel or GPS, Telangana man, colleague die in Saudi desert",
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died due to acute dehydration and exhaustion in Saudi Arabia's Rub\u2019 al Khali desert after their GPS signal failed."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.co.uk/2020/06/19/the-danger-of-blindly-following-machines",
   "title": "The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep buried axle deep in sand; Alicia survived, but her 6-year-old son tragically did not",
   "people": "Alicia Sanchez, a 28-year-old nurse, and her 6-year-old son",
   "navigation": "GPS followed for 20 miles down a poorly defined track",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Tim talks about the phenomenon of what rangers in Death Valley California have termed [death by GPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_GPS) \u2013 genuine examples of where people have ended up in perilous situations by uncritically following the step-by-step turns of a GPS rather than paying attention to what was in front of them.",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck.",
    "A week later a ranger discovered her Jeep buried axle deep in sand with SOS spelled out in medical tape on the windshield.",
    "Fortunately Alicia survived the ordeal but tragically her son did not."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Tim talks about the phenomenon of what rangers in Death Valley California have termed [death by GPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_GPS) \u2013 genuine examples of where people have ended up in perilous situations by uncritically following the step-by-step turns of a GPS rather than paying attention to what was in front of them.",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck."
   ]
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   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.co.uk/2020/06/19/the-danger-of-blindly-following-machines",
   "title": "The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
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   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Drove off the edge of an unfinished bridge and plummeted forty feet",
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   "location_evidence": null,
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or then there's the couple that blindly followed their GPS, driving past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge and plummeting forty feet."
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    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or then there's the couple that blindly followed their GPS, driving past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge and plummeting forty feet."
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    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or then there's the couple that blindly followed their GPS, driving past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge and plummeting forty feet."
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  {
   "url": "https://onlydeadfish.co.uk/2020/06/19/the-danger-of-blindly-following-machines",
   "title": "The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
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   "location": "Pennines",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Left teetering on a cliff edge",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or the man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or the man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or the man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "# The Danger of Blindly Following Machines",
    "Or the man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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   "url": "https://indiatimes.com/culture/gps-directed-a-man-to-drive-into-an-icy-lake-and-he-blindly-did-just-that/articleshow/129170702.html",
   "title": "GPS Directed A Man To Drive Into An Icy Lake, And He Blindly Did Just That!",
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   "location": "Lake Champlain, Vermont, US",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep Compass sank with only rear bumper visible; everybody was alright and nobody was under the influence of alcohol or drugs",
   "people": "Unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass, with two passengers on board",
   "navigation": "Waze app, GPS directions which advised to go straight",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# GPS Directed A Man To Drive Into An Icy Lake, And He Blindly Did Just That!",
    "A man blindly following his GPS app drove his SUV into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont US."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# GPS Directed A Man To Drive Into An Icy Lake, And He Blindly Did Just That!",
    "### The vehicle initially slid, but the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank.",
    "\"My first thing was, 'Is everybody OK?' Because this could have had a very bad ending, and luckily everybody was alright.\""
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# GPS Directed A Man To Drive Into An Icy Lake, And He Blindly Did Just That!",
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   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# GPS Directed A Man To Drive Into An Icy Lake, And He Blindly Did Just That!",
    "The unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \"followed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\" states a local report."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/different-couples-follow-gps-directions-into-trouble-in-oregon",
   "title": "Different Couples Follow GPS Directions Into Trouble in Oregon",
   "incident_date": "2009-12",
   "location": "Eastern Oregon (High desert, Forest Service Road 28 near Silver Lake, Oregon, USA)",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued after three days, unharmed (stuck in snow)",
   "people": "An older Nevada couple, aged 65 and 67",
   "navigation": "Toyota Sequoia GPS system; GPS unit sent them down a lightly traveled Forest Service road and instructed them to turn right on Forest Service Road 28",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "First, according to various news reports, an older [Nevada](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/nevada) couple using their four-wheel-drive [Toyota](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/toyota) Sequoia GPS system to guide them through Eastern Oregon's [high desert ](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/travel/oregon-s-high-desert.html?pagewanted=1)on [Christmas](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/christmas) instead got stuck in snow when their GPS unit sent them down a lightly traveled Forest Service road.",
    "It took three days before atmospheric conditions allowed their GPS equipped phone to send out their coordinates to rescuers.",
    "According to this [report](https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010618647_strandedmotorists29.html), the couple had followed their GPS south from [Portland, Oregon](https://www.portlandonline.com/) onto Highway 97 to Oregon Highway 31, which goes through [Silver Lake](https://www.oregonsoutback.com/towns/index.html) and [Lakeview](https://www.oregonsoutback.com/towns/index.html) in Oregon's outback country before connecting with Highway 395 to [Reno, Nevada](https://www.reno.com/).",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "First, according to various news reports, an older [Nevada](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/nevada) couple using their four-wheel-drive [Toyota](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/toyota) Sequoia GPS system to guide them through Eastern Oregon's [high desert ](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/travel/oregon-s-high-desert.html?pagewanted=1)on [Christmas](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/christmas) instead got stuck in snow when their GPS unit sent them down a lightly traveled Forest Service road.",
    "According to this [report](https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010618647_strandedmotorists29.html), the couple had followed their GPS south from [Portland, Oregon](https://www.portlandonline.com/) onto Highway 97 to Oregon Highway 31, which goes through [Silver Lake](https://www.oregonsoutback.com/towns/index.html) and [Lakeview](https://www.oregonsoutback.com/towns/index.html) in Oregon's outback country before connecting with Highway 395 to [Reno, Nevada](https://www.reno.com/).",
    "In Silver Lake, the GPS instructed them to turn right on Forest Service Road 28, and they followed that for nearly 35 miles before getting stuck in about 1.5 feet of snow.",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "It took three days before atmospheric conditions allowed their GPS equipped phone to send out their coordinates to rescuers.",
    "A local sheriff commented that, \"GPS almost did 'em in and GPS saved 'em.\"",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "First, according to various news reports, an older [Nevada](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/nevada) couple using their four-wheel-drive [Toyota](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/toyota) Sequoia GPS system to guide them through Eastern Oregon's [high desert ](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/travel/oregon-s-high-desert.html?pagewanted=1)on [Christmas](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/christmas) instead got stuck in snow when their GPS unit sent them down a lightly traveled Forest Service road.",
    "The couple, aged 65 and 67, were well-prepared for winter travel and had brought along warm clothes, food and extra water.",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "First, according to various news reports, an older [Nevada](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/nevada) couple using their four-wheel-drive [Toyota](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/toyota) Sequoia GPS system to guide them through Eastern Oregon's [high desert ](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/travel/oregon-s-high-desert.html?pagewanted=1)on [Christmas](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/christmas) instead got stuck in snow when their GPS unit sent them down a lightly traveled Forest Service road.",
    "According to this [report](https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010618647_strandedmotorists29.html), the couple had followed their GPS south from [Portland, Oregon](https://www.portlandonline.com/) onto Highway 97 to Oregon Highway 31, which goes through [Silver Lake](https://www.oregonsoutback.com/towns/index.html) and [Lakeview](https://www.oregonsoutback.com/towns/index.html) in Oregon's outback country before connecting with Highway 395 to [Reno, Nevada](https://www.reno.com/).",
    "In Silver Lake, the GPS instructed them to turn right on Forest Service Road 28, and they followed that for nearly 35 miles before getting stuck in about 1.5 feet of snow.",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/different-couples-follow-gps-directions-into-trouble-in-oregon",
   "title": "Different Couples Follow GPS Directions Into Trouble in Oregon",
   "incident_date": "2009-12",
   "location": "Forest Service road in Oregon, on a trip to the City of The Dalles, Oregon",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued a day later, unharmed (stuck in snow)",
   "people": "A young Lebanon, Oregon couple and their 11-month old daughter",
   "navigation": "Unspecified GPS unit offering a \"short cut\" on a Forest Service road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Then, a young [Lebanon, Oregon](https://www.ci.lebanon.or.us/) couple and their 11-month old daughter got stuck Christmas Eve after following a GPS offered \"short cut\" on a Forest Service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles on their trip to see family in the [CIty of The Dalles, Oregon](https://www.ci.the-dalles.or.us/).",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Then, a young [Lebanon, Oregon](https://www.ci.lebanon.or.us/) couple and their 11-month old daughter got stuck Christmas Eve after following a GPS offered \"short cut\" on a Forest Service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles on their trip to see family in the [CIty of The Dalles, Oregon](https://www.ci.the-dalles.or.us/).",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "They were found a day later after rescuers used the same type of GPS unit to map their potential routes.",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Then, a young [Lebanon, Oregon](https://www.ci.lebanon.or.us/) couple and their 11-month old daughter got stuck Christmas Eve after following a GPS offered \"short cut\" on a Forest Service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles on their trip to see family in the [CIty of The Dalles, Oregon](https://www.ci.the-dalles.or.us/).",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Then, a young [Lebanon, Oregon](https://www.ci.lebanon.or.us/) couple and their 11-month old daughter got stuck Christmas Eve after following a GPS offered \"short cut\" on a Forest Service road that would supposedly save them 40 miles on their trip to see family in the [CIty of The Dalles, Oregon](https://www.ci.the-dalles.or.us/).",
    "They were found a day later after rescuers used the same type of GPS unit to map their potential routes. The story did not identify the GPS unit involved.",
    "A word of advice: if you are driving in [Oregon](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/oregon) and your [GPS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/gps) unit says to follow a Forest Service road, don't do it."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7962212.stm",
   "title": "BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bradford",
   "incident_date": "2009-03-22",
   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "BMW car left teetering on a cliff edge/hanging off the edge of a cliff; driver unharmed, charged with driving without due care and attention",
   "people": "Robert Jones, a 43-year-old male driver from Doncaster, South Yorkshire",
   "navigation": "sat nav system; followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath believing it was a road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.",
    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.",
    "Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.",
    "Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.",
    "Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.",
    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.",
    "Police have charged Mr Jones with driving without due care and attention.",
    "Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.",
    "The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relied on his sat nav for his job.",
    "\"The driver was a 43-year-old man from Doncaster. He has been summonsed to court for driving without due care and attention.\""
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.",
    "Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://the-sun.com/news/5072422/couple-vanished-desert-final-coded-message",
   "title": "Elderly couple who vanished in desert sent desperate final coded message to loved ones before husband, 72, died",
   "incident_date": "2022-03-27",
   "location": "Silver Peak area of Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One man (Ronnie Barker) died, one woman (Beverly Barker) was rescued and airlifted to a hospital",
   "people": "Ronnie Barker (72) and his wife Beverly Barker (69)",
   "navigation": "GPS, following GPS up a mountain",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A MISSING couple who survived a week in the desert before one of them died sent final coded messages to their loved ones.",
    "On Tuesday rescuers found Beverly \u2013 who survived the ordeal \u2013 and the body of her husband Ronnie more than a week after their last correspondence on March 27."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Ronnie Barker, 72, and his wife Beverly, 69, were driving through the [Nevada](https://www.the-sun.com/where/nevada/) desert [when they \u201cvanished into thin air\u201d](https://www.the-sun.com/news/5060936/couple-vanished-rv-empty-husband-dead/) \u2013 prompting authorities to launch a desperate search for the pair.",
    "The couple was found Tuesday in the remote Silver Peak area of Esmeralda County about 177 miles northwest of Las Vegas."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A MISSING couple who survived a week in the desert before one of them died sent final coded messages to their loved ones.",
    "On Tuesday rescuers found Beverly \u2013 who survived the ordeal \u2013 and the body of her husband Ronnie more than a week after their last correspondence on March 27.",
    "Beverly was airlifted to a Reno hospital to be checked out."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "A MISSING couple who survived a week in the desert before one of them died sent final coded messages to their loved ones.",
    "Ronnie Barker, 72, and his wife Beverly, 69, were driving through the [Nevada](https://www.the-sun.com/where/nevada/) desert [when they \u201cvanished into thin air\u201d](https://www.the-sun.com/news/5060936/couple-vanished-rv-empty-husband-dead/) \u2013 prompting authorities to launch a desperate search for the pair."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A MISSING couple who survived a week in the desert before one of them died sent final coded messages to their loved ones.",
    "Peters said the pair had followed their GPS up a mountain before getting stuck."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://freightrelocators.com/threads/gps-kills-the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion.65151",
   "title": "GPS Kills! ~ The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion",
   "incident_date": "2010-07",
   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver and her family became stranded and ran in circles for hours and hours",
   "people": "Donna Cooper and her family",
   "navigation": "Nell, the GPS; the GPS told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, then go a quarter of a mile and turn left, running them in circles for hours",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "From A Story On An NPR Affiliate, KQED July 26, 2011",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "From A Story On An NPR Affiliate, KQED July 26, 2011",
    "In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death.",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "From A Story On An NPR Affiliate, KQED July 26, 2011",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked \"Nell,\" the GPS, for the shortest route back to their home.",
    "She had me running in circles for hours and hours and hours,\" she says."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "From A Story On An NPR Affiliate, KQED July 26, 2011",
    "That's what Donna Cooper, of Pahrump, Nev., discovered last July on a day trip to Death Valley.",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked \"Nell,\" the GPS, for the shortest route back to their home."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "From A Story On An NPR Affiliate, KQED July 26, 2011",
    "After a long day, Cooper and her family asked \"Nell,\" the GPS, for the shortest route back to their home.",
    "The GPS told them to go 550 feet, then turn right, Cooper says.",
    "\"Well, at 550 feet it was like a little path, and then it was like, go a quarter of a mile and turn left."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/saudi-arabia/telangana-man-and-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-running-out-of-fuel-and-mobile-battery/articleshow/112800111.cms",
   "title": "Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
   "incident_date": "2024-08",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "2 killed from dehydration",
   "people": "A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal failed",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "The incident occurred sometime between August 19 and August 21, while they were on a mission to repair a cellular tower.",
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery\n\nSynopsis\n\nA 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died from dehydration after being stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died from dehydration after being stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died from dehydration after being stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Their GPS signal failed, and they ran out of battery and fuel while on a mission to repair a cellular tower.",
    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Two men",
   "navigation": "GPS; followed GPS and made a wrong turn onto West Side Road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said.",
    "They drove back and forth on a gravel road for three hours after making a wrong turn onto West Side Road, park officials said."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiatimes.com/news/india/what-is-death-by-gps-how-technology-is-killing-people-616526.html",
   "title": "What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
   "incident_date": "2022-09",
   "location": "river below a broken bridge",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "1 killed",
   "people": "Philip John Paxson",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, which did not indicate that the bridge was no longer useable",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In September 2022, Philip John Paxson tragically died by driving over a broken bridge into the river below while following Google Maps, which did not indicate that the bridge was no longer useable."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In September 2022, Philip John Paxson tragically died by driving over a broken bridge into the river below while following Google Maps, which did not indicate that the bridge was no longer useable."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In September 2022, Philip John Paxson tragically died by driving over a broken bridge into the river below while following Google Maps, which did not indicate that the bridge was no longer useable."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In September 2022, Philip John Paxson tragically died by driving over a broken bridge into the river below while following Google Maps, which did not indicate that the bridge was no longer useable."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In September 2022, Philip John Paxson tragically died by driving over a broken bridge into the river below while following Google Maps, which did not indicate that the bridge was no longer useable."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiatimes.com/news/india/what-is-death-by-gps-how-technology-is-killing-people-616526.html",
   "title": "What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "between North Stradbroke Island and the mainland on the Australian coast",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "3 tourists misled / entered water and mud",
   "people": "three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in Australia, while driving to North Stradbroke Island on the Australian coast, entered into what was water and mud between the island and the mainland."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in Australia, while driving to North Stradbroke Island on the Australian coast, entered into what was water and mud between the island and the mainland."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in Australia, while driving to North Stradbroke Island on the Australian coast, entered into what was water and mud between the island and the mainland."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "In 2012, three Japanese tourists in Australia, while driving to North Stradbroke Island on the Australian coast, entered into what was water and mud between the island and the mainland."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# What Is 'Death By GPS'? How Technology Is Killing People?",
    "Image credit : 3 Japanese tourists misled by GPS in Australia, 2012/ Getty Images"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-15224329/Tourist-ends-teetering-edge-cliff-Porsche-following-GPS-shortcut-Italian-farm.html",
   "title": "Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Saltusio, Italy",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Porsche stopped just inches from the edge, driver escaped unharmed",
   "people": "a tourist / male driver",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "A shocking image shows the vehicle dangling over a steep grassy slope in Saltusio, [Italy](/news/italy/index.html), after the navigation device malfunctioned and directed the driver through a farm."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "While attempting to turn around, the Porsche lost traction on the wet grass and slid forward toward the drop, stopping just inches from the edge.",
    "Fortunately, the driver escaped unharmed and walked up the road to call for help."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "A tourist was left teetering on a cliff edge in his Porsche after following a supposed GPS 'shortcut'.",
    "Fortunately, the driver escaped unharmed and walked up the road to call for help."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "A tourist was left teetering on a cliff edge in his Porsche after following a supposed GPS 'shortcut'.",
    "A shocking image shows the vehicle dangling over a steep grassy slope in Saltusio, [Italy](/news/italy/index.html), after the navigation device malfunctioned and directed the driver through a farm."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-15224329/Tourist-ends-teetering-edge-cliff-Porsche-following-GPS-shortcut-Italian-farm.html",
   "title": "Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "Port Soderick, Isle of Man",
   "hazard": "cliff",
   "outcome": "motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries, car plunged off a cliff and was rescued by fire crews and coastguards",
   "people": "a motorist / a woman",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "Rescuers appear to have used ropes to descend towards the wrecked red Mini near Port Soderick, on the Isle of Man, from the steep bank by the road overlooking the sea."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff."
   ],
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    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff.",
    "The woman was rescued by fire crews and coastguards after her car landed on the cliff."
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    "# Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff.",
    "The woman was rescued by fire crews and coastguards after her car landed on the cliff."
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   "navigation_evidence": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/death-by-gps.1314685/page-9",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Little Tub Harbor",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "drove straight into a 100-foot-deep lake",
   "people": "a woman",
   "navigation": "GPS",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Describing the incident, Rubinstein-Gilbert said the **driving conditions were difficult with rain and fog making visibility difficult** when the woman approached the Little Tub Harbor."
   ],
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    "GPS falsely guided this woman\u2019s car straight into a 100-foot-deep lake",
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    "GPS falsely guided this woman\u2019s car straight into a 100-foot-deep lake",
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    "GPS falsely guided this woman\u2019s car straight into a 100-foot-deep lake"
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   "url": "https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/death-by-gps.1314685/page-9",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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   "location": "Nevada",
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "became stranded",
   "people": "the Chretiens (Albert Chretien and his wife)",
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    "During my lunch break, I decided to pull up Google Maps to follow the route taken by the Chretiens until they went off-road."
   ],
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    "Note to self...bring ham radio with car antenna, charger, and extra batteries...for when we get lost in the dessert without cell service."
   ],
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    "After they got stuck, Albert Chretien again used the GPS to locate the nearest city, Mountain City, and plot a walking course to get to it."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "During my lunch break, I decided to pull up Google Maps to follow the route taken by the Chretiens until they went off-road.",
    "After they got stuck, Albert Chretien again used the GPS to locate the nearest city, Mountain City, and plot a walking course to get to it."
   ],
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    "When it became dark they entered \"Mountain City\" as destination in their GPS.",
    "I don't understand why the GPS led them off Idaho 51."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://newser.com/story/254526/driver-ends-up-in-lake-champlain-after-using-waze.html",
   "title": "Owner on Jeep Ending Up in Lake: 'I Was Speechless'",
   "incident_date": "2018-01-12",
   "location": "Lake Champlain, near a local Coast Guard station, Burlington, Vt., United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Jeep sank 100 feet into the water and was submerged for 10 days before being retrieved; driver and passengers were unharmed and able to scramble out of the vehicle",
   "people": "three pals from Connecticut borrowing Tara Guertin's Jeep",
   "navigation": "Google's Waze app, directed the driver right off a boat launch near a local Coast Guard station into Lake Champlain",
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    "# Owner on Jeep Ending Up in Lake: 'I Was Speechless'",
    "Friends who'd borrowed her vehicle were led into Lake Champlain by Google's Waze app",
    "The *[Burlington Free Press](http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/01/23/waze-google-lake-champlain-car/1057316001/)* reports Guertin had let three pals from Connecticut borrow her Jeep for their road trip to Burlington, Vt., and as they drove in the area on a rainy, foggy Jan. 12, they relied on the Waze GPS app\u2014which combines preset directions with updates from users on everything from traffic slowdowns to speed traps\u2014to steer them in the right direction."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Owner on Jeep Ending Up in Lake: 'I Was Speechless'",
    "Friends who'd borrowed her vehicle were led into Lake Champlain by Google's Waze app",
    "The *[Burlington Free Press](http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/01/23/waze-google-lake-champlain-car/1057316001/)* reports Guertin had let three pals from Connecticut borrow her Jeep for their road trip to Burlington, Vt., and as they drove in the area on a rainy, foggy Jan. 12, they relied on the Waze GPS app\u2014which combines preset directions with updates from users on everything from traffic slowdowns to speed traps\u2014to steer them in the right direction.",
    "It was right off a boat launch near a local Coast Guard station, causing the Jeep to sink 100 feet into the water before those in the car could figure out what had happened."
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    "# Owner on Jeep Ending Up in Lake: 'I Was Speechless'",
    "Friends who'd borrowed her vehicle were led into Lake Champlain by Google's Waze app",
    "It was right off a boat launch near a local Coast Guard station, causing the Jeep to sink 100 feet into the water before those in the car could figure out what had happened.",
    "Luckily, the driver and passengers were able to scramble out of the vehicle as it sank.",
    "[WCAX](http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Submerged-car-to-be-removed-from-Lake-Champlain-470534153.html) documents the logistical difficulties an underwater salvage company had in retrieving the car, which was said to have been submerged for 10 days."
   ],
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    "# Owner on Jeep Ending Up in Lake: 'I Was Speechless'",
    "Friends who'd borrowed her vehicle were led into Lake Champlain by Google's Waze app",
    "The *[Burlington Free Press](http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/01/23/waze-google-lake-champlain-car/1057316001/)* reports Guertin had let three pals from Connecticut borrow her Jeep for their road trip to Burlington, Vt., and as they drove in the area on a rainy, foggy Jan. 12, they relied on the Waze GPS app\u2014which combines preset directions with updates from users on everything from traffic slowdowns to speed traps\u2014to steer them in the right direction."
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    "# Owner on Jeep Ending Up in Lake: 'I Was Speechless'",
    "Friends who'd borrowed her vehicle were led into Lake Champlain by Google's Waze app",
    "The *[Burlington Free Press](http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/01/23/waze-google-lake-champlain-car/1057316001/)* reports Guertin had let three pals from Connecticut borrow her Jeep for their road trip to Burlington, Vt., and as they drove in the area on a rainy, foggy Jan. 12, they relied on the Waze GPS app\u2014which combines preset directions with updates from users on everything from traffic slowdowns to speed traps\u2014to steer them in the right direction.",
    "Except it wasn't the right direction: It was right off a boat launch near a local Coast Guard station, causing the Jeep to sink 100 feet into the water before those in the car could figure out what had happened."
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  {
   "url": "https://autoblog.com/news/stranded-canadian-couple-latest-victims-of-death-by-gps",
   "title": "Stranded Canadian couple latest victims of \"Death by GPS\"",
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   "location": "Northern Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "The husband set out for help while the wife remained with their vehicle for seven weeks until being discovered (still alive) by a group of hunters.",
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   "navigation": "GPS led them astray",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "[A Canadian couple was recently in the news when their GPS led them astray](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/09/woman-survives-7-weeks-in-wilderness-in-her-chevy-astro) and into a remote part of Northern Nevada.",
    "\u201cDeath by GPS\u201d \u2013 Click above to watch video [after the jump](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/18/stranded-canadian-couple-latest-victims-of-death-by-gps/#continued)"
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    "The husband set out for help while the wife remained with their vehicle for *seven weeks* until being discovered (still alive) by a group of hunters.",
    "\u201cDeath by GPS\u201d \u2013 Click above to watch video [after the jump](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/18/stranded-canadian-couple-latest-victims-of-death-by-gps/#continued)"
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    "[A Canadian couple was recently in the news when their GPS led them astray](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/09/woman-survives-7-weeks-in-wilderness-in-her-chevy-astro) and into a remote part of Northern Nevada.",
    "The husband set out for help while the wife remained with their vehicle for *seven weeks* until being discovered (still alive) by a group of hunters.",
    "\u201cDeath by GPS\u201d \u2013 Click above to watch video [after the jump](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/18/stranded-canadian-couple-latest-victims-of-death-by-gps/#continued)"
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    "[A Canadian couple was recently in the news when their GPS led them astray](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/09/woman-survives-7-weeks-in-wilderness-in-her-chevy-astro) and into a remote part of Northern Nevada.",
    "\u201cDeath by GPS\u201d \u2013 Click above to watch video [after the jump](https://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/18/stranded-canadian-couple-latest-victims-of-death-by-gps/#continued)"
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   "url": "https://militarybudget.org/finding-your-way-a-death-valley-north-america-map-and-why-you-cant-just-trust-your-phone-wg8",
   "title": "Finding Your Way: A Death Valley North America Map and Why You Can't Just Trust Your Phone",
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   "location": "Mojave, Death Valley, California and Nevada",
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   "outcome": "Stranded for days",
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   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-12152743/I-thought-puddle-Tourist-drives-car-Hawaii-harbor-following-GPS.html",
   "title": "'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS",
   "incident_date": "2023-05-29",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii",
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   "outcome": "Car sank halfway under; driver rescued unharmed by Good Samaritans onto their boat",
   "people": "A female tourist driving a 2020 Ford Edge",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake",
    "The incident happened on May 29 - exactly one month after another motorist made the same error driving a van into the harbor with a passenger on board",
    "Hawaii Police said the incident happened Monday around 8pm, and the men who rescued her said she told them she mistook the sea for a large puddle."
   ],
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    "Good Samaritans came to her rescue and pulled her on board their boat at Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona on the west of the island",
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    "Good Samaritans came to her rescue and pulled her on board their boat at Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona on the west of the island",
    "A one-minute-43-second-long clip of the action shows rescuers approach her sinking 2020 Ford Edge, which is already halfway under, in the drizzling rain as one comments: 'What a way to end a day, huh?'",
    "A woman eventually emerges and doggy-paddles to the rescue boat laden with the bags from her car. Soaking wet and gasping for air, she clambers on board."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake",
    "A tourist who drove her car into a [Hawaii](/news/hawaii/index.html) harbor while following her GPS said she mistook the sea for 'a puddle' - just one month after [another motorist made the same mistake](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html).",
    "A one-minute-43-second-long clip of the action shows rescuers approach her sinking 2020 Ford Edge, which is already halfway under, in the drizzling rain as one comments: 'What a way to end a day, huh?'"
   ],
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    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake",
    "A tourist who drove her car into a [Hawaii](/news/hawaii/index.html) harbor while following her GPS said she mistook the sea for 'a puddle' - just one month after [another motorist made the same mistake](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html).",
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   "url": "https://dailymail.com/news/article-12152743/I-thought-puddle-Tourist-drives-car-Hawaii-harbor-following-GPS.html",
   "title": "'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS",
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   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii",
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   "outcome": "Van sank into the harbor; two occupants rescued safely by a sailboat crew",
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   "url": "https://vuink.com/post/nefgrpuavpn-d-dpbz/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps",
   "title": "Death by GPS - Ars Technica",
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   "url": "https://foxbangor.com/news/national/doordasher-delivering-dunkin-drives-into-water-after-allegedly-following-gps-charges-filed/article_336e7eed-c056-56f1-ac96-8dd1adee1495.html",
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    "A DoorDash driver was charged after driving into a swamp in [Middleton, Massachusetts](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/massachusetts), while attempting to deliver Dunkin\u2019 Donuts."
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   "url": "https://factinface.info/news/174040-a_doordach_driver_delivering_dunkin_followed_gps_directions_and_ended_up_driving_into_a_swamp/print",
   "title": "A DoorDash driver delivering Dunkin' followed GPS directions and ended up driving into a swamp",
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    "With donuts in hand, the panicked driver managed to get out of the vehicle and walk to a nearby home on Kenney Road, where they called police.",
    "Police found the partially submerged vehicle on a dirt road behind 18 Kenney Road with the motor \u201cstill running.\u201d",
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    "The driver has been charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle and a request for an immediate threat license suspension was filed, according to police."
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    "A shocking image shows the vehicle dangling over a steep grassy slope in Saltusio, [Italy](/news/italy/index.html), after the navigation device malfunctioned and directed the driver through a farm."
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   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15224329/Tourist-ends-teetering-edge-cliff-Porsche-following-GPS-shortcut-Italian-farm.html",
   "title": "Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
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    "# Avoiding Plan Continuation Bias",
    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck."
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    "# Avoiding Plan Continuation Bias",
    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck.",
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    "Fortunately Alicia survived the ordeal but tragically her son did not."
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    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Like the tragic [story of Alicia Sanchez](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner), the 28 year-old nurse who when driving with her 6 year old son through Death Valley followed her GPS for 20 miles down a poorly defined track until her car became stuck."
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    "# Avoiding Plan Continuation Bias",
    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Or then there\u2019s the couple that blindly followed their GPS, driving past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge and plummeting forty feet."
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    "# Avoiding Plan Continuation Bias",
    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Or then there\u2019s the couple that blindly followed their GPS, driving past concrete barriers, orange barrels and road closed signs before [driving off the edge](https://methodshop.com/2016/12/death-by-gps.shtml) of an unfinished bridge and plummeting forty feet."
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    "# Avoiding Plan Continuation Bias",
    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Or the man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "# Avoiding Plan Continuation Bias",
    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
    "Or the man whose GPS took him and his car down a steep, narrow path in the Pennines until he was [left teetering on a cliff edge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm)."
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    "## \u2026and the dangers of blindly following technology and data",
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    "9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life"
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   "url": "https://theglobeandmail.com/technology/following-gps-devices-directions-strands-couple-for-three-days/article4297260",
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   "url": "https://mindmatters.ai/2020/01/ai-should-mean-thinking-smarter-not-less",
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   "url": "https://seattlepi.com/national/article/Vacation-from-hell-due-to-bad-GPS-device-1281292.php",
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   "url": "https://cnta.ca/finding-your-way-a-death-valley-north-america-map-and-why-you-cant-just-trust-your-phone-wg8",
   "title": "Finding Your Way: A Death Valley North America Map and Why You Can't Just Trust Your Phone",
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    "# Finding Your Way: A Death Valley North America Map and Why You Can't Just Trust Your Phone",
    "I cannot stress this enough: \"Death by GPS\" is a real phenomenon in the Mojave."
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   "url": "https://eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/07/survivor-tells-how-road-trip-went-wrong-in-desert-north-of-death-valley",
   "title": "Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
   "incident_date": "2022-03-27",
   "location": "Nevada desert, near Red Mountain in the Silver Peak range north of Death Valley, Nevada, USA",
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   "people": "Beverly Barker (69-year-old) and her 72-year-old husband, Ronnie",
   "navigation": "GPS directed them to a small road heading into the desert south of Coaldale, at the intersection of highways 6 and 95",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
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    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "A woman who saw her husband die after they were lost for a week in the Nevada desert said they went off course by following GPS instructions and then became stranded without blankets or water.",
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    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
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    "Beverly Barker was rescued Tuesday afternoon and was taken to Reno for medical treatment."
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    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "The account by 69-year-old Beverly Barker, who was rescued Tuesday west of the community of Silver Peak, was relayed by [her nephew Travis Peters](https://www.facebook.com/groups/706822300457674/permalink/708498393623398) on the Facebook group he set up during the search.",
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    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "As Beverly Barker described it, once they passed Luning their GPS directed them to a small road heading into the desert south of Coaldale, at the intersection of highways 6 and 95."
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  },
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   "url": "https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-gps/753809",
   "title": "Death by GPS",
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   "outcome": "husband died (didn't make it); wife survived 49 days until found by hunters; car got stuck",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "An interesting - though rather long - [article](http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/) about the issue of over-reliance on GPS-based navigation devices.",
    "The article starts and ends with an amazing story of a Canadian couple headed to Las Vegas: They got lost following GPS directions in Nevada; car got stuck on a rough road, husband walked for help, wife stayed with car."
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    "An interesting - though rather long - [article](http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/) about the issue of over-reliance on GPS-based navigation devices.",
    "The article starts and ends with an amazing story of a Canadian couple headed to Las Vegas: They got lost following GPS directions in Nevada; car got stuck on a rough road, husband walked for help, wife stayed with car. He didn\u2019t make it; she survived 49 days until found by hunters."
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    "An interesting - though rather long - [article](http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/) about the issue of over-reliance on GPS-based navigation devices.",
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    "An interesting - though rather long - [article](http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/) about the issue of over-reliance on GPS-based navigation devices.",
    "The article starts and ends with an amazing story of a Canadian couple headed to Las Vegas: They got lost following GPS directions in Nevada; car got stuck on a rough road, husband walked for help, wife stayed with car."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://aol.co.uk/lifestyle/2011-05-12-sat-nav-system-blamed-for-woman-who-nearly-died-in-remote-mounta.html",
   "title": "Sat nav system blamed for woman who nearly died in US mountains",
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   "location": "Nevada mountains, Nevada, USA",
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   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Rita Chretien, 56, and her husband Albert, 59",
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    "# Sat nav system blamed for woman who nearly died in US mountains",
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    "# Sat nav system blamed for woman who nearly died in US mountains",
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   "url": "https://aol.co.uk/lifestyle/2011-05-12-sat-nav-system-blamed-for-woman-who-nearly-died-in-remote-mounta.html",
   "title": "Sat nav system blamed for woman who nearly died in US mountains",
   "incident_date": "2009-12",
   "location": "Oregon desert, Oregon, USA",
   "hazard": "desert",
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   "people": "a couple from Nevada",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://forestriverforums.com/threads/woman-follows-gps-and-drives-down-boat-launch-into-lake.226052",
   "title": "Woman Follows GPS and Drives Down Boat Launch Into lake",
   "incident_date": "2013-XX-XX",
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   "outcome": "A red car was fully submerged and pulled from the harbour; the female occupant/driver survived.",
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    "Police in Tobermory, Ont., pulled a red car from the harbour early Friday morning after a Kitchener woman followed instructions from her GPS and drove down a boat launch and into the water.",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Police in Tobermory, Ont., pulled a red car from the harbour early Friday morning after a Kitchener woman followed instructions from her GPS and drove down a boat launch and into the water.",
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    "Police in Tobermory, Ont., pulled a red car from the harbour early Friday morning after a Kitchener woman followed instructions from her GPS and drove down a boat launch and into the water.",
    "Combining \"weather conditions and the driver being new to the area, a fully submerged vehicle was the result,\" police said in a release."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Police in Tobermory, Ont., pulled a red car from the harbour early Friday morning after a Kitchener woman followed instructions from her GPS and drove down a boat launch and into the water.",
    "Combining \"weather conditions and the driver being new to the area, a fully submerged vehicle was the result,\" police said in a release."
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    "Police in Tobermory, Ont., pulled a red car from the harbour early Friday morning after a Kitchener woman followed instructions from her GPS and drove down a boat launch and into the water.",
    "Ontario Provincial Police said the woman was following her GPS \"when she took a wrong turn into Little Tub Harbour\" late Thursday night."
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  {
   "url": "https://sacbee.com/news/california/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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   "url": "http://archive.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2016/hamilton.pdf",
   "title": "Attributing GIS Data: Mitigating \u201cDeath by GPS\u201d",
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   "location": "The Cline Avenue Bridge, United States",
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   "outcome": "One woman died",
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    "Civil GPS Service \nInterface Committee (CGSIC) \n\nAttributing GIS Data:   \nMitigating \u201cDeath by GPS\u201d \n\nRick Hamilton \nCGSIC Executive Secretariat \nSurvey, Mapping and Geo-Sciences Subcommittee \n\nSeptember 12, 2016",
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   "url": "https://polishforums.com/archives/2005-2009/news/driver-follows-gps-directions-lake-29021",
   "title": "Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake !",
   "incident_date": "2008-10",
   "location": "lake",
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    "Just found this article on Yahoo news ..... well it made me laugh :o)",
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    "Just found this article on Yahoo news ..... well it made me laugh :o)",
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   "url": "https://polishforums.com/archives/2005-2009/news/driver-follows-gps-directions-lake-29021",
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    "Just found this article on Yahoo news ..... well it made me laugh :o)",
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   "url": "https://pupjunkies.com/finding-your-way-a-death-valley-north-america-map-and-why-you-cant-just-trust-your-phone-wg8",
   "title": "Finding Your Way: A Death Valley North America Map and Why You Can't Just Trust Your Phone",
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    "# Finding Your Way: A Death Valley North America Map and Why You Can't Just Trust Your Phone",
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   "url": "https://dunyanews.tv/en/WeirdNews/424952-take-the-next-u-turn:-us-driver-following-gps-plunges-into-lake",
   "title": "Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
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   "location": "Burlington, Vermont, USA",
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   "url": "https://news24online.com/world/telangana-man-dies-in-saudi-desert-after-gps-glitch-and-fuel-shortage/321100",
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    "8 News Now / KLAS-TV Las Vegas. \"Missing couple survived alone in car for 7 days before death and rescue.\" April 7, 2022."
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   "url": "https://sudonull.com/post/232897-A-woman-drove-into-the-lake-on-the-GPS-navigator",
   "title": "Sudo Null - Latest IT News",
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    "# A woman drove into the lake on the GPS-navigator",
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    "# A woman drove into the lake on the GPS-navigator",
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   "url": "https://laraveltip.com/finding-your-way-a-death-valley-north-america-map-and-why-you-cant-just-trust-your-phone-wg8",
   "title": "Finding Your Way: A Death Valley North America Map and Why You Can't Just Trust Your Phone",
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   "url": "https://ciol.com/travelers-warned-rely-gps",
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   "url": "https://newser.com/story/225133/driver-following-gps-ends-up-in-icy-lake.html",
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    "A Canadian driver got a scary surprise Thursday night when she drove right into Lake Huron while following GPS instructions, [the CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/kitchener-woman-gps-drives-off-tobermory-boat-launch-1.3580930) reports.",
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   "url": "https://automotive-fleet.com/news/convoy-rescued-after-gps-led-them-to-utah-cliff",
   "title": "Convoy Rescued After GPS Led Them to Utah Cliff",
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   "url": "https://theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/seven-weeks-in-wilderness-rita-chretien-recalls-her-nightmare/article556079",
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   "url": "https://thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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   "url": "https://thecomeback.com/general/man-real-life-michael-scott-moment-drives-car-pond-gps-told.html",
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   "url": "https://straitstimes.com/world/united-states/take-the-next-u-turn-us-driver-following-gps-plunges-into-lake",
   "title": "Take the next U-turn: US driver following GPS plunges into lake",
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    "WASHINGTON (AFP) - Technology won't always save us.",
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    "Guertin told local reporters that the driver was using the Waze app, which uses user-supplied data to help people find alternate routes to avoid traffic jams or speed cameras."
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   "url": "https://express.co.uk/life-style/life/1150733/artificial-intelligence-technology-consequences",
   "title": "Age of technology: Are you a victim of artificial idiocy?",
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   "outcome": null,
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
    "In 2012, Apple hurriedly amended its Maps app after a glitch began guiding Australians hoping to visit the city of Mildura into remote wilderness."
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
    "In 2012, Apple hurriedly amended its Maps app after a glitch began guiding Australians hoping to visit the city of Mildura into remote wilderness."
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
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  },
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   "url": "https://express.co.uk/life-style/life/1150733/artificial-intelligence-technology-consequences",
   "title": "Age of technology: Are you a victim of artificial idiocy?",
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   "location": null,
   "hazard": "desert",
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
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   "url": "https://express.co.uk/life-style/life/1150733/artificial-intelligence-technology-consequences",
   "title": "Age of technology: Are you a victim of artificial idiocy?",
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   "location": "Indiana",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "drove off a demolished bridge",
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
    "Three years later, a driver ignored road warning signs and followed his GPS navigation off a demolished bridge in Indiana."
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
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    "The advice is aimed at those suffering from a modern phenomenon known as \"death by GPS\" - an extreme version of something most of us have already encountered.",
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   "url": "http://theunknownbutnothidden.com/man-blindly-following-gps-drives-jeep-icy-lake",
   "title": "Man Blindly Following GPS Drives Jeep Into Icy Lake -",
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   "outcome": "Jeep Compass sank into Lake Champlain and was submerged except for its rear bumper; the driver and two passengers escaped unharmed",
   "people": "an unnamed male driver of the Jeep Compass and two friends from out of state as passengers",
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    "The trio \u2014 friends from out of state driving a borrowed car \u2014 escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident."
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    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio \u2014 friends from out of state driving a borrowed car \u2014 escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "The vehicle initially slid, but the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank."
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    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio \u2014 friends from out of state driving a borrowed car \u2014 escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "The vehicle initially slid, but the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank.",
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    "A man blindly following his GPS app has driven an SUV with two passengers on board into an icy lake in the northeastern state of Vermont, local police said.",
    "The trio \u2014 friends from out of state driving a borrowed car \u2014 escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
    "The unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \u201cfollowed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\u201d the report read."
   ],
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    "The unnamed driver of the Jeep Compass \u201cfollowed the GPS directions, which advised to go straight, and upon following this he went down the boat ramp onto the ice,\u201d the report read.",
    "Guertin told local reporters that the driver was using the Waze app, which uses user-supplied data to help people find alternate routes to avoid traffic jams or speed cameras."
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  {
   "url": "https://cssm.etimg.com/news/international/saudi-arabia/telangana-man-and-colleague-die-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-running-out-of-fuel-and-mobile-battery/articleshow/112800111.cms",
   "title": "Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
   "incident_date": "2024-08-19",
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
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   "outcome": "2 died from dehydration",
   "people": "A 27-year-old man from Telangana (Mohammad Shehzad Khan) and his Sudanese colleague",
   "navigation": "GPS signal failed",
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
    "The incident occurred sometime between August 19 and August 21, while they were on a mission to repair a cellular tower.",
    "On August 19, they ventured into the treacherous Rub' al Khali desert, also known as the 'Empty Quarter.'"
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died from dehydration after being stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "According to reports, the duo succumbed to [dehydration](/topic/dehydration) after becoming lost in the desert."
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
    "A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died from dehydration after being stranded in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert.",
    "Family members of Mohammad Shehzad Khan confirmed the heartbreaking news.",
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    "# Telangana man and colleague die in Saudi Arabia desert after running out of fuel and mobile battery",
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  {
   "url": "https://911uk.com/porsche/i-was-only-following-satnav-orders-driver-convicted.25975",
   "title": "'I was only following satnav orders' driver convicted",
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   "location": "Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK",
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   "outcome": "BMW hit a fence and became stuck perilously close to a 100ft drop, recovered after nine hours in a \u00a31,000 operation; driver Robert Jones convicted, fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs, and given 6 penalty points; driver unharmed",
   "people": "Robert Jones, 43, a car delivery driver from Doncaster",
   "navigation": "TomTom satellite-navigation system led him up a lane clearly unsuitable for motor vehicles and toward a cliff edge",
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    "'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless",
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    "The car was eventually towed to safety in a recovery operation costing \u00a31,000, lasting nine hours and involving a tractor and three quad bikes.",
    "Jones, who delivers cars across the country for a living, was fined \u00a3370, ordered to pay \u00a3500 costs and had six penalty points put on his licence."
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    "Common sense should have warned Robert Jones that this narrow cliffside path was no place for a BMW.",
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    "'I was only following satnav orders' is no defence: Driver who ended up teetering on cliff edge convicted of careless",
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   "url": "https://time.com/4309397/how-gps-is-messing-with-our-minds",
   "title": "How GPS Is Messing With Our Minds",
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   "location": "Death Valley, California, United States",
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    "So many of them have found themselves [stranded](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion) in the wasteland of Death Valley that park rangers gave the incidents a name: \u201c[death by GPS](http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html).\u201d"
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    "So many of them have found themselves [stranded](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion) in the wasteland of Death Valley that park rangers gave the incidents a name: \u201c[death by GPS](http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article2573180.html).\u201d"
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    "Around the world, drivers follow that soothing voice of GPS into harms way."
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    "Since the rise of consumer turn-by-turn satellite navigation units in the mid-2000s, there has been increasing evidence that GPS is messing with our heads."
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   "url": "https://time.com/4309397/how-gps-is-messing-with-our-minds",
   "title": "How GPS Is Messing With Our Minds",
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   "location": "Woolooga, Queensland, Australia",
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    "Or the woman on her way to (chillingly) Deception Bay in Australia, who [flipped](http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/did-gps-play-part-wooloogas-near-tragedy-weekend/3008963/) her car into a creek, and barely escaped with her two small children\u2014local residents have long known that computerized map databases misleadingly call that road a highway, but how could she?"
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    "Or the woman on her way to (chillingly) Deception Bay in Australia, who [flipped](http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/did-gps-play-part-wooloogas-near-tragedy-weekend/3008963/) her car into a creek, and barely escaped with her two small children\u2014local residents have long known that computerized map databases misleadingly call that road a highway, but how could she?"
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    "Or the woman on her way to (chillingly) Deception Bay in Australia, who [flipped](http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/did-gps-play-part-wooloogas-near-tragedy-weekend/3008963/) her car into a creek, and barely escaped with her two small children\u2014local residents have long known that computerized map databases misleadingly call that road a highway, but how could she?"
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    "Or the woman on her way to (chillingly) Deception Bay in Australia, who [flipped](http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/did-gps-play-part-wooloogas-near-tragedy-weekend/3008963/) her car into a creek, and barely escaped with her two small children\u2014local residents have long known that computerized map databases misleadingly call that road a highway, but how could she?"
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   "url": "https://miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "The park visitors then found the second man \u2014 who was showing signs of a heat-related illness \u2014 and took him to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, officials said."
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   "url": "https://news9live.com/world/telangana-man-stuck-in-desert-for-4-days-in-saudi-arabia-dies-2668758",
   "title": "Telangana man, stuck in desert for 4 days in Saudi Arabia, dies",
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   "url": "https://internewscast.com/news/us/mothers-handwritten-notes-lead-to-rescue-of-stranded-pair-in-remote-california-wilderness",
   "title": "Mother\u2019s Handwritten Notes Lead to Rescue of Stranded Pair in Remote California Wilderness",
   "incident_date": "2025-07-12",
   "location": "near Spicer Reservoir, Calaveras County, California",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle freed and occupants rescued unharmed and reunited with loved ones",
   "people": "49-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son",
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    "Lost mother's handwritten notes save her and 9-year-old son stranded in remote California wilderness",
    "The incident occurred on Saturday, July 12, when what began as a routine training exercise for the Calaveras County Volunteer Search and Rescue (SAR) Team evolved into an actual rescue mission within the challenging landscape near Spicer Reservoir."
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    "Lost mother's handwritten notes save her and 9-year-old son stranded in remote California wilderness",
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    "Lost mother's handwritten notes save her and 9-year-old son stranded in remote California wilderness",
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   "url": "https://autopostglobal.com/latest-scoops/photo-report/article/71024?amp=1",
   "title": "GPS Gets You Driving Blindly! 5 Dumb Accidents Why You Should Stop Depending on",
   "incident_date": "2023-04-29",
   "location": "Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle completely submerged within five minutes; occupants narrowly escaped through the windows and were helped by nearby bystanders.",
   "people": "Resident Christie Hutchinson and her husband",
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    "In April and May 2023, two separate incidents occurred at Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where vehicles went into the ocean while following GPS directions.",
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    "In April and May 2023, two separate incidents occurred at Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where vehicles went into the ocean while following GPS directions.",
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    "On April 29, resident Christie Hutchinson and her husband, who were on their way to a manta ray tour, drove into the sea after following their GPS route."
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    "In April and May 2023, two separate incidents occurred at Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where vehicles went into the ocean while following GPS directions.",
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   "url": "https://autopostglobal.com/latest-scoops/photo-report/article/71024?amp=1",
   "title": "GPS Gets You Driving Blindly! 5 Dumb Accidents Why You Should Stop Depending on",
   "incident_date": "2023-05-29",
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    "In April and May 2023, two separate incidents occurred at Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where vehicles went into the ocean while following GPS directions.",
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    "In April and May 2023, two separate incidents occurred at Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where vehicles went into the ocean while following GPS directions.",
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    "Mistaking the ocean for a large puddle in the darkness, he followed the directions and only realized the danger as the car began to sink.",
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    "Just a month later, on May 29, a tourist had a similar accident at the same location."
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    "In April and May 2023, two separate incidents occurred at Honok\u014dhau Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where vehicles went into the ocean while following GPS directions.",
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  {
   "url": "https://kisselpaso.com/woman-drives-car-into-water-gps-to-blame-video",
   "title": "Woman Drives Car Into Water, GPS to Blame [VIDEO]",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Bellevue, Washington",
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    "A woman who was using the GPS in her rental car while in Bellevue, Washington learned the hard way that you can\u2019t always trust your GPS."
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    "Because it was dark and she was in an unfamiliar territory, the woman \u2014 who was with two others \u2014 drove the rented SUV straight into a swampy area, with the vehicle going under the water.",
    "The driver and her two passengers [were able to make it to shore unharmed](http://bellevue.komonews.com/news/911/women-escape-sinking-car-after-crashing-mercer-slough/647201), but the SUV wasn\u2019t so fortunate."
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    "The system guided her down a boat launch just after midnight on Wednesday.",
    "Because it was dark and she was in an unfamiliar territory, the woman \u2014 who was with two others \u2014 drove the rented SUV straight into a swampy area, with the vehicle going under the water.",
    "The driver and her two passengers [were able to make it to shore unharmed](http://bellevue.komonews.com/news/911/women-escape-sinking-car-after-crashing-mercer-slough/647201), but the SUV wasn\u2019t so fortunate."
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    "A woman who was using the GPS in her rental car while in Bellevue, Washington learned the hard way that you can\u2019t always trust your GPS.",
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   "url": "https://theregister.com/2009/09/17/italian_job_fine",
   "title": "Italian Job sat nav driver cops \u00a3900 fine",
   "incident_date": "2009-03",
   "location": "village of Gauxholme, West Yorkshire, England",
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    "# *Italian Job* sat nav driver cops \u00a3900 fine",
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    "# *Italian Job* sat nav driver cops \u00a3900 fine",
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    "The Doncaster man who slavishly followed his sat nav to the edge of a West Yorkshire cliff has been punished with a \u00a3370 fine, \u00a3500 costs, a \u00a315 victim surcharge and six points on his licence for driving without due care and attention.",
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    "# *Italian Job* sat nav driver cops \u00a3900 fine",
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    "It subsequently took extraction operatives nine hours and three quad bikes to rescue the vehicle.",
    "Jones is another \u00a31,000 out of pocket - the cost of having his car towed to safety after the AA refused to assist."
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    "# *Italian Job* sat nav driver cops \u00a3900 fine",
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    "# *Italian Job* sat nav driver cops \u00a3900 fine",
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    "Waseem Raja, prosecuting, said: \"The defendant was using a TomTom satellite navigation system."
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   "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/gps-mistakenly-leads-another-driver-water-hawaii-1716425",
   "title": "GPS mistakenly leads another driver into the water in Hawaii",
   "incident_date": "2023-05-29",
   "location": "Honokohau Harbour, Hawaii, USA",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle entered the water; woman escaped without injuries; vehicle was pulled out later",
   "people": "A woman",
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    "A woman drove her car straight into the sea at Hawaii's Honokohau Harbour, exactly a month after a similar incident was reported from the same place.",
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    "A woman drove her car straight into the sea at Hawaii's Honokohau Harbour, exactly a month after a similar incident was reported from the same place.",
    "The woman escaped the mishap without any injuries, and her vehicle was also pulled out later."
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    "A woman drove her car straight into the sea at Hawaii's Honokohau Harbour, exactly a month after a similar incident was reported from the same place.",
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    "The incident took place on May 29, when the woman was looking for directions with the help of GPS.",
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   "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/gps-mistakenly-leads-another-driver-water-hawaii-1716425",
   "title": "GPS mistakenly leads another driver into the water in Hawaii",
   "incident_date": "2023-05",
   "location": "Honokohau Harbour, Hawaii, USA",
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    "Another group of tourists were rescued from the same harbor in early May for the same reason.",
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    "Another group of tourists were rescued from the same harbor in early May for the same reason.",
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   "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/gps-mistakenly-leads-another-driver-water-hawaii-1716425",
   "title": "GPS mistakenly leads another driver into the water in Hawaii",
   "incident_date": "2017",
   "location": "Anhui, China",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car (white Hyundai) drove into the middle of a river",
   "people": "A man",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "In a similar incident reported from [China](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/topics/china) in 2017, a man drove his white Hyundai straight into the middle of a river in Anhui after relying on his car's GPS for directions."
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    "In a similar incident reported from [China](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/topics/china) in 2017, a man drove his white Hyundai straight into the middle of a river in Anhui after relying on his car's GPS for directions."
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   "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/gps-mistakenly-leads-another-driver-water-hawaii-1716425",
   "title": "GPS mistakenly leads another driver into the water in Hawaii",
   "incident_date": "2016",
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   "outcome": "Drove straight into the bay; was not injured",
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   "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/gps-mistakenly-leads-another-driver-water-hawaii-1716425",
   "title": "GPS mistakenly leads another driver into the water in Hawaii",
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   "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/google-maps-misstep-vegas-to-la-detour-turns-into-desert-odyssey-for-drivers/printarticle/105565103.cms",
   "title": "Google Maps misstep: Vegas-to-LA detour turns into desert odyssey for drivers!",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle stranded for hours, significant tire and body damage to Easler's brother's car requiring costly repairs; occupants unharmed and rescued",
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    "Google Maps suggestion left travellers stranded in desert for hours",
    "Departing from [Las Vegas](/topic/las-vegas) en route to [Los Angeles](/topic/los-angeles) on November 19th, they encountered an unexpected dust storm warning along Interstate 15."
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    "Google Maps suggestion left travellers stranded in desert for hours",
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    "Google Maps suggestion left travellers stranded in desert for hours",
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   "url": "https://sanluisobispo.com/news/california/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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   "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/believe-it-or-not-following-the-gps-can-land-you-in-a-bog/articleshow/128778212.cms",
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    "# Believe it or not: Following the GPS can land you in a bog",
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   "url": "https://thebiglead.com/texas-amazon-flex-driver-stranded",
   "title": "Texas Amazon Flex driver follows GPS onto muddy road and gets stuck. Then Amazon promises to send an emergency team\u2014and leaves her stranded: \u2018This is my last day\u2019",
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   "title": "Texas Amazon Flex driver follows GPS onto muddy road and gets stuck. Then Amazon promises to send an emergency team\u2014and leaves her stranded: \u2018This is my last day\u2019",
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   "url": "https://theprepared.com/survival-skills/guides/learn-compass-map",
   "title": "How to use a compass and map",
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    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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   "location": "Canada to Las Vegas",
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   "outcome": "declared dead",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# How to use a compass and map",
    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
    "Or the couple driving from Canada to Las Vegas who took a GPS shortcut in the dark, yet after a three week rescue effort were declared dead."
   ],
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    "# How to use a compass and map",
    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# How to use a compass and map",
    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# How to use a compass and map",
    "## Why you should learn how to use a map and compass",
    "Or the couple driving from Canada to Las Vegas who took a GPS shortcut in the dark, yet after a three week rescue effort were declared dead."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://always-reforming.com/2021/04/23/follow-the-leader",
   "title": "Follow the Leader?",
   "incident_date": "2018-01",
   "location": "Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "car slid 100 feet onto the lake and remained at the bottom before retrieval by divers; 3 people managed to climb out unharmed",
   "people": "three people, including an unnamed driver",
   "navigation": "Waze app directed the driver to turn onto the boat launch near the Coast Guard station, insisting driving into the lake was the right way to go",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "New York Magazine ran an article in January 2018 entitled *Yet Another Person Listens to GPS App and Drives Car Into Lake*.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "\u201cA driver in Vermont steered his car right into Lake Champlain on Friday.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "\u201cBy the time they realized what was happening, the car had slid 100 feet onto the lake.",
    "The three people in the car managed to climb out.",
    "The car remained at the bottom of the lake before it could be retrieved by divers.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "\u201cA driver in Vermont steered his car right into Lake Champlain on Friday.",
    "The three people in the car managed to climb out.",
    "The unnamed driver certainly isn\u2019t the first person to blindly follow technology to a watery end.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "The driver says he was using navigation app Waze, which apparently insisted that driving into the lake was the right way to go.",
    "\u201cThe app directed the drivers to turn onto the boat launch near the Coast Guard station,\u201d the *Burlington Free Press* reports.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://always-reforming.com/2021/04/23/follow-the-leader",
   "title": "Follow the Leader?",
   "incident_date": "2017-06",
   "location": "Massachusetts, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "drove into a lake",
   "people": "a guy",
   "navigation": "GPS blamed for directing him into a lake",
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    "In June 2017, there was a guy who drove into a lake in Massachusetts and blamed his GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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    "In June 2017, there was a guy who drove into a lake in Massachusetts and blamed his GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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    "In June 2017, there was a guy who drove into a lake in Massachusetts and blamed his GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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    "In June 2017, there was a guy who drove into a lake in Massachusetts and blamed his GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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    "In June 2017, there was a guy who drove into a lake in Massachusetts and blamed his GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ]
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   "url": "https://always-reforming.com/2021/04/23/follow-the-leader",
   "title": "Follow the Leader?",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Ontario, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "navigated into a pond",
   "people": "a woman",
   "navigation": "GPS blamed for navigating into a pond",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "He\u2019s joined by a woman in Ontario who similarly navigated into a pond and \u2026 blamed her GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "He\u2019s joined by a woman in Ontario who similarly navigated into a pond and \u2026 blamed her GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
   ],
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    "He\u2019s joined by a woman in Ontario who similarly navigated into a pond and \u2026 blamed her GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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    "He\u2019s joined by a woman in Ontario who similarly navigated into a pond and \u2026 blamed her GPS.",
    "# Follow the Leader?"
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   "url": "https://deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/kerala/kottayam-google-maps-error-leads-electric-car-into-stream-couple-narrowly-escapes-1893448",
   "title": "Kottayam: Google Maps Error Leads Electric Car Into Stream; Couple Narrowly Escapes",
   "incident_date": "2025-07-23",
   "location": "Kuruppanthara, Kottayam, Kerala, India",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Electric car partially submerged in a stream; 0 killed, 0 injured, rescued with the help of locals and workers from a nearby timber mill.",
   "people": "Josy Joseph (62) and his wife Sheeba (58)",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, guided them to take a flooded, poorly visible road that led directly toward an overflowing stream.",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Kottayam: Google Maps Error Leads Electric Car Into Stream; Couple Narrowly Escapes",
    "In yet another troubling case of GPS misdirection, an electric car carrying Josy Joseph (62) and his wife Sheeba (58) from Chethipuzha, Kottayam, veered into a stream near Kuruppanthara around 11 am on Wednesday."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Kottayam: Google Maps Error Leads Electric Car Into Stream; Couple Narrowly Escapes",
    "Josy and Sheeba Joseph survive after car plunges into flooded path in Kuruppanthara; locals blame repeated GPS errors",
    "In yet another troubling case of GPS misdirection, an electric car carrying Josy Joseph (62) and his wife Sheeba (58) from Chethipuzha, Kottayam, veered into a stream near Kuruppanthara around 11 am on Wednesday."
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    "# Kottayam: Google Maps Error Leads Electric Car Into Stream; Couple Narrowly Escapes",
    "Josy and Sheeba Joseph survive after car plunges into flooded path in Kuruppanthara; locals blame repeated GPS errors",
    "The couple narrowly escaped what could have been a fatal accident, thanks to their quick thinking and timely help from locals.",
    "Locals and workers from a nearby timber mill rushed to the spot and helped recover the vehicle."
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    "# Kottayam: Google Maps Error Leads Electric Car Into Stream; Couple Narrowly Escapes",
    "In yet another troubling case of GPS misdirection, an electric car carrying Josy Joseph (62) and his wife Sheeba (58) from Chethipuzha, Kottayam, veered into a stream near Kuruppanthara around 11 am on Wednesday."
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    "# Kottayam: Google Maps Error Leads Electric Car Into Stream; Couple Narrowly Escapes",
    "Guided by Google Maps, they took a flooded, poorly visible road that led directly toward an overflowing stream."
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   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15224329/amp/Tourist-ends-teetering-edge-cliff-Porsche-following-GPS-shortcut-Italian-farm.html",
   "title": "Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Saltusio, Italy",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "a tourist / the driver / a man",
   "navigation": "navigation device malfunctioned and directed the driver through a farm",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "A tourist was left teetering on a cliff edge in his Porsche after following a supposed GPS 'shortcut'.",
    "A shocking image shows the vehicle dangling over a steep grassy slope in Saltusio, Italy, after the navigation device malfunctioned and directed the driver through a farm."
   ],
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "A tourist was left teetering on a cliff edge in his Porsche after following a supposed GPS 'shortcut'.",
    "The man had been returning home late in the evening when the system suggested a shortcut to his accommodation, local media reported."
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    "A tourist was left teetering on a cliff edge in his Porsche after following a supposed GPS 'shortcut'.",
    "A shocking image shows the vehicle dangling over a steep grassy slope in Saltusio, Italy, after the navigation device malfunctioned and directed the driver through a farm."
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   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15224329/amp/Tourist-ends-teetering-edge-cliff-Porsche-following-GPS-shortcut-Italian-farm.html",
   "title": "Tourist ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff in his Porsche after following GPS 'shortcut' through Italian farm",
   "incident_date": "2023",
   "location": "Port Soderick, on the Isle of Man",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff",
   "people": "a motorist / a woman",
   "navigation": "GPS link implicitly noted through the context of GPS-related compilation, though specific sat-nav text is not directly restated in the sentence for this secondary case beyond mirroring the category",
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    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff."
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    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff.",
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    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff."
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    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff.",
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    "It comes after in 2023 a motorist miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the car she was driving plunged off a cliff."
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   "url": "https://studycountry.com/wiki/who-was-the-family-of-man-who-died-after-gps",
   "title": "Who was the family of man who died after GPS?",
   "incident_date": "2022-09",
   "location": "Hickory, North Carolina, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "One man killed",
   "people": "Phil Paxson, and his wife Alicia Paxson and two daughters ages 7 and 9",
   "navigation": "Google Maps, failed to update its navigation system regarding a collapsed bridge",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Who was the family of man who died after GPS?",
    "This photo of the Snow Creek Bridge was taken after **Phil Paxson** drove into a river in Hickory, North Carolina in September 2022."
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    "# Who was the family of man who died after GPS?",
    "This photo of the Snow Creek Bridge was taken after **Phil Paxson** drove into a river in Hickory, North Carolina in September 2022."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Who was the family of man who died after GPS?",
    "Did Google Maps cause a man to drive off a bridge?",
    "The family of a North Carolina man who drowned last year after he drove off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions has sued Google for negligence, saying that the company's failure to update its maps led directly to his death."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Who was the family of man who died after GPS?",
    "This photo of the Snow Creek Bridge was taken after **Phil Paxson** drove into a river in Hickory, North Carolina in September 2022."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Who was the family of man who died after GPS?",
    "The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence, claiming it had been informed of the collapse but failed to update its navigation system."
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   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12152743/I-thought-puddle-Tourist-drives-car-Hawaii-harbor-following-GPS.html",
   "title": "'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS",
   "incident_date": "2023-05-29",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "A woman tourist driving a 2020 Ford Edge",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "The incident happened on May 29 - exactly one month after another motorist made the same error driving a van into the harbor with a passenger on board",
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Good Samaritans came to her rescue and pulled her on board their boat at Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona on the west of the island",
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake"
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake",
    "A tourist who drove her car into a [Hawaii](/news/hawaii/index.html) harbor while following her GPS said she mistook the sea for 'a puddle' - just one month after [another motorist made the same mistake](/news/article-12046603/Tourists-follow-GPS-directions-straight-sea-Hawaii-rescued.html)."
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   "url": "https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12152743/I-thought-puddle-Tourist-drives-car-Hawaii-harbor-following-GPS.html",
   "title": "'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS",
   "incident_date": "2023-04-29",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Two women (a driver and her passenger sister)",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Exactly one month earlier, on April 29, another woman was caught on camera driving her van - which had another passenger on board who was reportedly her sister - straight into the same harbor.",
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake"
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Exactly one month earlier, on April 29, another woman was caught on camera driving her van - which had another passenger on board who was reportedly her sister - straight into the same harbor.",
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake"
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "Exactly one month earlier, on April 29, another woman was caught on camera driving her van - which had another passenger on board who was reportedly her sister - straight into the same harbor.",
    "# 'I thought it was a puddle': Tourist drives her car into Hawaii harbor while following her GPS as panicked witnesses scream at her to get out as it sinks - a month after another driver made the exact same mistake"
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   "url": "https://priuschat.com/threads/death-by-gps.89669/page-3",
   "title": "Death by GPS.",
   "incident_date": "2023-11-19",
   "location": "I-15 near California-Nevada border",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Nobody died; huge traffic backup on the narrow desert trail, turning un-navigable to many or most highway vehicles",
   "people": "Drivers attempting to navigate from Vegas to LA",
   "navigation": "Google Maps tried to guide people around a dust storm that closed I-15 on November 19, by sending them down a narrow bumpy dirt trail through the desert",
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    "At least nobody died when Google Maps tried to guide people around a dust storm that closed I-15 on November 19, by sending them down a narrow bumpy dirt trail through the desert, turning un-navigable to many or most highway vehicles:"
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    "At least nobody died when Google Maps tried to guide people around a dust storm that closed I-15 on November 19, by sending them down a narrow bumpy dirt trail through the desert, turning un-navigable to many or most highway vehicles:",
    "[I-15 closed near California-Nevada border due to dust storm, low visibility](https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/i-15-closed-at-california-nevada-border-due-to-dust-storm-low-visibility/)"
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    "At least nobody died when Google Maps tried to guide people around a dust storm that closed I-15 on November 19, by sending them down a narrow bumpy dirt trail through the desert, turning un-navigable to many or most highway vehicles:"
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "[**Google apologizes after map led drivers down dirt path into the desert** ](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/google-apologizes-after-map-led-drivers-down-dirt-path-into-the-desert/)",
    "I'd never have guessed that that many people would need GPS assistance navigating from Vegas to LA all at the same time, or would try to dodge a weather closure of the paved roads."
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    "At least nobody died when Google Maps tried to guide people around a dust storm that closed I-15 on November 19, by sending them down a narrow bumpy dirt trail through the desert, turning un-navigable to many or most highway vehicles:"
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   "url": "https://newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "Two men",
   "navigation": "GPS; made a wrong turn onto West Side Road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said.",
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   "url": "https://newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": null,
   "hazard": "desert",
   "outcome": "Car got stuck, two men walked miles; one was picked up by visitors, second man showed signs of heat-related illness and was taken to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada; car removed by a towing company three weeks later.",
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    "Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said."
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    "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The car got stuck less than a mile away, so the men walked a mile to Badwater Road, then 12 miles along another road, officials said.",
    "The park visitors then found the second man \u2014 who was showing signs of a heat-related illness \u2014 and took him to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, officials said.",
    "A towing company used a skid steer machine to remove the car from the desert three weeks later, park officials said."
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  {
   "url": "https://thedrive.com/article/17978/man-follows-waze-drives-jeep-down-boat-launch-into-lake",
   "title": "Man Follows Waze, Drives Jeep Down Boat Launch into Lake",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Burlington, Vermont, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "drove 100 feet into the lake; occupants unharmed / rescued",
   "people": "three friends from Connecticut (including the driver whose Jeep was lent by Tara Guertin)",
   "navigation": "Waze app; directed her friends to turn onto the boat launch",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "[According to *First Coast News*](https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/waze-unable-to-explain-how-car-ended-up-in-lake-champlain/507-511396998), Tara lent her Jeep to three friends from Connecticut who were doing some sight-seeing in the Vermont town of Burlington."
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    "Apparently, it was dark and foggy, and the three friends wound up driving 100 feet into the lake before they realized they\u2019d made a terrible mistake.",
    "Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo confirmed that the driver was not intoxicated.",
    "The officer at the scene, Padric Hartnett, said the driver willingly consented to field sobriety exercises and passed with no problem."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "[According to *First Coast News*](https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/waze-unable-to-explain-how-car-ended-up-in-lake-champlain/507-511396998), Tara lent her Jeep to three friends from Connecticut who were doing some sight-seeing in the Vermont town of Burlington."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "They used the Waze app to figure out how to get around.",
    "[Waze uses turn-by-turn GPS directions](https://www.thedrive.com/article/16514/waze-gains-features-for-motorcyclists-hov-lanes-and-voice-control) combined with user reports of accidents, traffic jams, and speed traps, to offer up the most efficient route from point A to point B.",
    "Her friends say the app directed her friends to turn onto the boat launch near the U.S. Coast Guard station."
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   "url": "https://sarstoriesnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/following-gps-into-trouble.html",
   "title": "Following GPS Into Trouble",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Death Valley, San Bernardino County, California, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "An 11-year-old boy and his mom",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": null,
   "people_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
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   "url": "https://sarstoriesnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/following-gps-into-trouble.html",
   "title": "Following GPS Into Trouble",
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   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
    "The mom told rescuers in California's San Bernardino County that her son days after she fixed a flat tire and continued into Death Valley, relying on directions from a GPS device in the vehicle."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
    "The mom told rescuers in California's San Bernardino County that her son days after she fixed a flat tire and continued into Death Valley, relying on directions from a GPS device in the vehicle."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
    "The mom told rescuers in California's San Bernardino County that her son days after she fixed a flat tire and continued into Death Valley, relying on directions from a GPS device in the vehicle."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
    "The mom told rescuers in California's San Bernardino County that her son days after she fixed a flat tire and continued into Death Valley, relying on directions from a GPS device in the vehicle."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html)",
    "The mom told rescuers in California's San Bernardino County that her son days after she fixed a flat tire and continued into Death Valley, relying on directions from a GPS device in the vehicle."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sarstoriesnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/following-gps-into-trouble.html",
   "title": "Following GPS Into Trouble",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "A creek ford",
   "hazard": "water",
   "outcome": "Car swept away, total loss (\u00a396,000 Merc written off), driver had to be rescued",
   "people": "A woman driver",
   "navigation": "Navigation system instructed the driver to use a creek ford",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[\u00a396,000 Merc Written Off As Sat Nav Leads Woman Astray](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389219-96000-merc-written-off-as-satnav-leads-woman-astray.do)",
    "Following the instructions on her navigation system to use a creek ford, the driver failed to notice it was swelled by torrential rain."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[\u00a396,000 Merc Written Off As Sat Nav Leads Woman Astray](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389219-96000-merc-written-off-as-satnav-leads-woman-astray.do)",
    "Following the instructions on her navigation system to use a creek ford, the driver failed to notice it was swelled by torrential rain."
   ],
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[\u00a396,000 Merc Written Off As Sat Nav Leads Woman Astray](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389219-96000-merc-written-off-as-satnav-leads-woman-astray.do)",
    "The car was swept away and she had to be rescued. The car was a total loss."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[\u00a396,000 Merc Written Off As Sat Nav Leads Woman Astray](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389219-96000-merc-written-off-as-satnav-leads-woman-astray.do)",
    "Following the instructions on her navigation system to use a creek ford, the driver failed to notice it was swelled by torrential rain."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "### Following GPS Into Trouble",
    "Here in Arizona, the shortest route to a destination certainly isn't always the best route, with drivers occasionally ending up stranded in remote areas on rough, unpaved roads that sometimes all but disappear into the desert.",
    "[\u00a396,000 Merc Written Off As Sat Nav Leads Woman Astray](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389219-96000-merc-written-off-as-satnav-leads-woman-astray.do)",
    "Following the instructions on her navigation system to use a creek ford, the driver failed to notice it was swelled by torrential rain."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://yahoo.com/news/tourists-lost-following-gps-death-165306327.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle got stuck on a salt flat, one man showed signs of heat-related illness and was taken to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, car removed by a towing company three weeks later, and both men were issued a mandatory court appearance.",
   "people": "Two men",
   "navigation": "GPS; made a wrong turn onto West Side Road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The car got stuck less than a mile away, so the men walked a mile to Badwater Road, then 12 miles along another road, officials said.",
    "The park visitors then found the second man \u2014 who was showing signs of a heat-related illness \u2014 and took him to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, officials said.",
    "A towing company used a skid steer machine to remove the car from the desert three weeks later, park officials said.",
    "Both men were issued a \"mandatory court appearance for illegal off-road driving and the resulting damage to the park,\" officials said."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said.",
    "They drove back and forth on a gravel road for three hours after making a wrong turn onto West Side Road, park officials said."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/tesla-full-self-driving-tried-to-drive-owner-into-a-lake-raising-safety-concerns-23844",
   "title": "Tesla's Full Self-Driving tries to drive owner into lake, raising fresh safety concerns",
   "incident_date": "2026-02",
   "location": null,
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver intervened and hit the brakes before entering the water; unharmed, no injuries or vehicle submersion occurred.",
   "people": "Daniel Milligan, a Tesla owner and former SpaceX engineer",
   "navigation": "Full Self-Driving version 14.2.2.4 mistook a boat ramp for a road and accelerated toward a lake",
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    "Tesla's Full Self-Driving tries to drive owner into lake, raising fresh safety concerns",
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
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    "Tesla's Full Self-Driving tries to drive owner into lake, raising fresh safety concerns",
    "accelerates towards what would've been its watery grave, had the driver not hit the brakes.",
    "Daniel Milligan's viral video, which garnered over 1.2 million views, shows the car accelerating down a boat ramp at night before he intervened."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Tesla's Full Self-Driving tries to drive owner into lake, raising fresh safety concerns",
    "Footage of this lacustrine impulse was shared Sunday by Daniel Milligan, a Tesla owner and former SpaceX engineer.",
    "Daniel Milligan, a former SpaceX engineer, shared the footage on Sunday, tagging both Tesla and Ashok Elluswamy, the company's head of Autopilot AI"
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Tesla's Full Self-Driving tries to drive owner into lake, raising fresh safety concerns",
    "A Tesla owner captured his vehicle attempting to drive straight into a lake while using Full Self-Driving version 14.2.2.4.",
    "A Tesla owner's nighttime drive nearly ended in an unexpected swim when his vehicle, operating on Full Self-Driving version 14.2.2.4, mistook a boat ramp for a road and accelerated toward a lake."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://deccanherald.com/world/stranded-without-water-telangana-man-dies-in-saudi-arabia-desert-after-losing-gps-signal-3163634",
   "title": "Stranded without water, Telangana man dies in Saudi Arabia desert after losing GPS signal",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Rub' al Khali desert (Empty Quarter), Saudi Arabia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver Mohammad Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese companion died due to severe dehydration and exhaustion after their vehicle ran out of fuel and phone battery died.",
   "people": "27-year-old Mohammad Shehzad Khan and his Sudanese companion",
   "navigation": "Lost their way in the desert after their GPS signal failed",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "A man from Telangana died in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali desert due to dehydration and exhaustion.",
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    "The incident took place when Khan and his Sudanese companion lost their way in the desert after their GPS signal failed. Things went downhill from there after their vehicle ran out of fuel and the phone battery died. The pair, unable to call for help, was left stranded in the scorching heat without any food or water.",
    "While the duo tried to fight for survival, the extreme temperature and lack of help resulted in the deaths due to severe dehydration and exhaustion, the publication reported.",
    "Four days later, their bodies were found next to the vehicle on Thursday."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
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    "The incident took place when Khan and his Sudanese companion lost their way in the desert after their GPS signal failed."
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   "url": "https://worldofbuzz.com/man-blindly-follows-wazes-directions-ends-driving-car-lake",
   "title": "Man Blindly Follows Waze's Directions, Ends Up Driving Car Into Lake - WORLD OF BUZZ",
   "incident_date": "January 12",
   "location": "Burlington, Vermont, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Three people unharmed, climbed out of the vehicle before it sank into the icy Lake Champlain; the Jeep Compass was submerged for more than a week before being pulled out",
   "people": "An unnamed man and two friends",
   "navigation": "Waze app; advised them to go straight and he inadvertently went down a boat ramp",
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    "Many of us use popular GPS apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving and navigating to our destination.",
    "On January 12, they were heading back to their lodging in Burlington while using Waze to navigate their way."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Many of us use popular GPS apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving and navigating to our destination.",
    "According to [Straits Times](http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/take-the-next-u-turn-us-driver-following-gps-plunges-into-lake), the unnamed man was driving a Jeep Compass in Vermont and the trio were unfamiliar with the area.",
    "On January 12, they were heading back to their lodging in Burlington while using Waze to navigate their way."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Many of us use popular GPS apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving and navigating to our destination.",
    "**Luckily, the three of them managed to climb out of the vehicle before it sank into the ice and they escaped uninjured.**",
    "The sunken vehicle was pulled out from the icy depths on January 22, after being submerged for more than a week."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Many of us use popular GPS apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving and navigating to our destination.",
    "Recently, a man who was using his Waze app while driving with two friends on board did just that and **as a result, he accidentally drove the car into an icy lake.***OMG!*",
    "According to [Straits Times](http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/take-the-next-u-turn-us-driver-following-gps-plunges-into-lake), the unnamed man was driving a Jeep Compass in Vermont and the trio were unfamiliar with the area."
   ],
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    "Many of us use popular GPS apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving and navigating to our destination.",
    "Recently, a man who was using his Waze app while driving with two friends on board did just that and **as a result, he accidentally drove the car into an icy lake.***OMG!*",
    "**Apparently, Waze advised them to go straight and he inadvertently went down a boat ramp, into the icy Lake Champlain.***Uh-oh!*"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dotnetliberty.com/michael-drives-into-a-lake-a34xvhf",
   "title": "michael drives into a lake",
   "incident_date": "2012",
   "location": "Moreton Bay, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Drove 500 yards into the water before the car got stuck",
   "people": "three tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS showing a ferry route, misinterpreted by the occupants as a road",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Michael Drives Into A Lake",
    "Real World Incidents Mirroring The Office",
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   ],
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    "Michael Drives Into A Lake",
    "Real World Incidents Mirroring The Office",
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Michael Drives Into A Lake",
    "Real World Incidents Mirroring The Office",
    "They drove 500 yards into the water before the car got stuck."
   ],
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    "Michael Drives Into A Lake",
    "Real World Incidents Mirroring The Office",
    "In 2012, three tourists in Australia followed their GPS into Moreton Bay."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Michael Drives Into A Lake",
    "Real World Incidents Mirroring The Office",
    "They claimed the GPS showed a road.",
    "It didn't.",
    "It showed a ferry route."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://thriftyfun.com/Avoid-Death-by-GPS.html",
   "title": "Avoid \"Death by GPS!\"",
   "incident_date": "2011-05",
   "location": "remote area of Nevada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rita was found alive after seven and a half weeks and spent about a week or so in the hospital; Albert went missing and chances are did not survive",
   "people": "Albert and Rita Chretien (a Canadian couple)",
   "navigation": "Magellan unit",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "# Avoid \"Death by GPS!\"",
    "Rita was found earlier this month - after seven and a half weeks."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Avoid \"Death by GPS!\"",
    "They followed their Magellan unit's instructions...straight into a dead end in a remote area of Nevada."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Avoid \"Death by GPS!\"",
    "Rita was found earlier this month - after seven and a half weeks. Albert is still missing.",
    "She was found in early May and in the hospital for about a week or so because of her condition."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Avoid \"Death by GPS!\"",
    "A Canadian couple, Albert and Rita Chretien, learned that lesson the hard way."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "# Avoid \"Death by GPS!\"",
    "They followed their Magellan unit's instructions...straight into a dead end in a remote area of Nevada."
   ]
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  {
   "url": "https://drive.com.au/news/gps-strands-couple-in-snow-for-days-20091229-14b72",
   "title": "GPS strands couple in snow for days",
   "incident_date": "2025-12-25",
   "location": "Winema-Fremont National Forest outside Silver Lake, Oregon, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": null,
   "people": "John Rhoads, 65, and his wife, Starry Bush-Rhoads, 67",
   "navigation": null,
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "news",
    "# GPS strands couple in snow for days",
    "Evinger said the couple got stranded on Christmas Day and a sheriff's deputy found them in the Winema-Fremont National Forest outside the small town of Silver Lake on Sunday afternoon and pulled their four-wheel-drive Toyota Sequoia out of the snow with a winch."
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    "news",
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    "An American couple who relied on their SUV's navigation system to guide them through the high desert in the state of Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road.",
    "Evinger said the couple got stranded on Christmas Day and a sheriff's deputy found them in the Winema-Fremont National Forest outside the small town of Silver Lake on Sunday afternoon and pulled their four-wheel-drive Toyota Sequoia out of the snow with a winch."
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   "outcome_evidence": null,
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    "news",
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  {
   "url": "https://cnet.com/culture/womans-gps-leads-her-straight-into-a-100-ft-deep-lake",
   "title": "Woman following GPS ends up in a 100-foot-deep lake",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Tobermory, Ontario, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Driver uninjured, swam to safety; red Toyota Yaris submerged in Georgian Bay",
   "people": "23-year-old unnamed woman",
   "navigation": "car's GPS, missed right turn",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.",
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   ],
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    "Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.",
    "Fortunately, the woman quickly realized what had happened and wound her window down before the power cut out and was able to swim to safety.",
    "Her red Toyota Yaris wasn't so lucky.",
    "A police report says that the woman was uninjured, but that the water was a mere 4 degrees Celsius (around 39 degrees Fahrenheit)."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
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    "This may have been learned by a 23-year-old woman was driving through the proverbial dark and stormy Canadian night on Thursday."
   ],
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    "Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.",
    "Some people slavishly follow their car's GPS.",
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    "She missed it."
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  {
   "url": "https://resistforum.forumotion.com/t368-travelers-told-not-to-rely-only-on-gps",
   "title": "Travelers told Not To Rely Only On GPS",
   "incident_date": "2011",
   "location": "Nevada wilderness, Nevada, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Albert Chretien missing since March 22; Rita Chretien found alive by hunters after 48 days.",
   "people": "Albert Chretien, 59, and his wife Rita Chretien, 56",
   "navigation": "hand-held GPS, an electronic device tied to global satellites and commonly used for navigation; mapped the route",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "**Travelers warned not to rely only on\nGPS**",
    "Albert Chretien, 59, and his wife Rita Chretien, 56, sought a shorter\nroute between Boise, Idaho and Jackpot, Nevada during a road trip from\nBritish Columbia to Las Vegas.",
    "Albert Chretien has been missing\nsince March 22, when he went to seek help."
   ],
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    "authorities said, after a Canadian couple were lost in the Nevada\nwilderness for 48 days."
   ],
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    "**Travelers warned not to rely only on\nGPS**",
    "Rita Chretien drank water from a stream and rationed meager supplies\nuntil hunters found her on Friday.",
    "Albert Chretien has been missing\nsince March 22, when he went to seek help."
   ],
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   ],
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  {
   "url": "https://autoevolution.com/news/truck-dangles-off-cliff-330-ft-after-gps-takes-it-up-mountain-road-178586.html",
   "title": "Truck Dangles Off Cliff 330 Ft After GPS Takes It up Mountain Road",
   "incident_date": "2022-01-01",
   "location": "Changzhi City, Northern China",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Truck dangled 330 ft (100 m) off a cliff, blocked highway passage for three days, but driver managed to flee from the cabin with no casualties.",
   "people": "A truck driver referred to as Mr. Wu from Northern China",
   "navigation": "GPS, which took him up on a narrow mountain road",
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    "As he was minding his own business, his GPS took him up on a narrow mountain road which ended with the transport vehicle dangling off 300 ft over a cliff.",
    "Luckily, the driver managed to flee from the cabin, as the [truck](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/kenworth-debuts-class-8-all-electric-truck-at-2022-ces-has-plenty-of-torque-178468.html) had its front axle off the road and the wheels hanging down from the steep cliff.",
    "One can only imagine the traffic around the area, as it took the authorities three days to set the wheels of the truck back on the road.",
    "Luckily, there were no casualties, and the cliffhanger turned out to be a happy ending."
   ],
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    "The new year didn\u2019t start well for this truck driver from Northern China.",
    "A truck driver the local media refers to as Mr. Wu was working, as usual, driving to his destination while using the GPS, like we normally do."
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    "As he was minding his own business, his GPS took him up on a narrow mountain road which ended with the transport vehicle dangling off 300 ft over a cliff.",
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   "url": "https://inquisitr.com/3094690/woman-follows-gps-straight-into-lake-huron-swims-to-safety",
   "title": "Woman Follows GPS Straight Into Lake Huron, Swims To Safety",
   "incident_date": "2016-05-13",
   "location": "Little Tub Harbour, Tobermory, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle ended up in the water and was later fished/towed out; the driver escaped with no injuries.",
   "people": "A 23-year-old woman from Kitchener, Ontario",
   "navigation": "GPS steered her into Lake Huron / followed her GPS instructions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "A woman from Ontario, Canada ended up going for a little swim shortly after midnight on May 13 when her GPS steered her into Lake Huron.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "Thankfully, after the GPS steered the woman wrong and sent her into Little Tub Harbour in Tobermory, the woman had enough time to roll down her window, grab her purse, and swim 30 meters to shore.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
   ],
   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Her Toyota Yaris, along with the GPS, was fished from Lake Huron early Friday morning.",
    "While she is, according to police, embarrassed, National Post reports that she escaped with no injuries except perhaps to her pride.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "A woman from Ontario, Canada ended up going for a little swim shortly after midnight on May 13 when her GPS steered her into Lake Huron.",
    "The 23-year-old woman took a wrong turn as she was driving due to her adherence to her GPS, and according to the Independent, police say it would be fairly easy to end up plunging into Lake Huron if a wrong turn was inadvertently taken.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
   ],
   "navigation_evidence": [
    "A woman from Ontario, Canada ended up going for a little swim shortly after midnight on May 13 when her GPS steered her into Lake Huron.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://inquisitr.com/3094690/woman-follows-gps-straight-into-lake-huron-swims-to-safety",
   "title": "Woman Follows GPS Straight Into Lake Huron, Swims To Safety",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "North Stradbroke Island, off the coast of Brisbane, Australia",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "The car could not be salvaged as a result of the GPS misdirection, but the tourists realized they needed to leave the vehicle.",
   "people": "Three Japanese tourists",
   "navigation": "GPS did not take into account nine miles of water separating the mainland from the island",
   "incident_date_evidence": null,
   "location_evidence": [
    "Three Japanese tourists in Australia discovered this when they decided to try and take a trip to North Stradbroke Island, slightly off the coast of Brisbane.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
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   "hazard_evidence": null,
   "outcome_evidence": [
    "It wasn\u2019t until water actually started lapping at the tires that they realized they needed to leave the vehicle and that the best way to get to the island was by ferry.",
    "The car could not be salvaged as a result of the GPS misdirection.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Three Japanese tourists in Australia discovered this when they decided to try and take a trip to North Stradbroke Island, slightly off the coast of Brisbane.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
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   "navigation_evidence": [
    "Nine miles of water, though, separated the mainland from the island \u2013 something which the GPS did not take into account.",
    "Now that\u2019s taking following instructions a little too far."
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  {
   "url": "https://k1047.com/2023/05/05/tourists-rental-car-water-the-office",
   "title": "Tourists Drive Rental Car Into Water Just Like That Scene On \u2018The Office\u2019",
   "incident_date": "2023-05",
   "location": "Honokohau Small Boat Harbor, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii\u2019s Big Island, Hawaii, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "SUV sank and had to be pulled out of the water by a tow crew; passenger climbed out open window and swam to safety; driver was pulled out of the SUV by a sailboat crew and carried up the boat ramp; everyone is okay with no reported fatalities.",
   "people": "Two tourists (one female driver and one passenger)",
   "navigation": "Following GPS directions",
   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "Tourists Drive Rental Car Into Water Just Like That Scene On \u2018The Office\u2019",
    "According to [*Hawaii News Now*](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/), two tourists driving to a manta ray excursion on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island accidentally drove their SUV into a harbor off Kailua-Kona."
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   "location_evidence": [
    "Tourists Drive Rental Car Into Water Just Like That Scene On \u2018The Office\u2019",
    "According to [*Hawaii News Now*](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/), two tourists driving to a manta ray excursion on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island accidentally drove their SUV into a harbor off Kailua-Kona.",
    "Witnesses say they plunged into Honokohau Small Boat Harbor with their windows down."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "Tourists Drive Rental Car Into Water Just Like That Scene On \u2018The Office\u2019",
    "The passenger climbed out the open window and swam to safety.",
    "A sailboat crew had to jump in the water to pull the driver out of the SUV, then carry her up the boat ramp.",
    "Thankfully, everyone is okay.",
    "The SUV? Not so much.",
    "It sank and had to be pulled out of the water by a tow crew."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "Tourists Drive Rental Car Into Water Just Like That Scene On \u2018The Office\u2019",
    "According to [*Hawaii News Now*](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/02/tourists-mistakenly-drive-suv-into-hawaii-island-harbor/), two tourists driving to a manta ray excursion on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island accidentally drove their SUV into a harbor off Kailua-Kona.",
    "The passenger climbed out the open window and swam to safety.",
    "A sailboat crew had to jump in the water to pull the driver out of the SUV, then carry her up the boat ramp."
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    "Tourists Drive Rental Car Into Water Just Like That Scene On \u2018The Office\u2019",
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   "url": "https://yahoo.com/lifestyle/tourists-lost-following-gps-death-165306327.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, United States",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Car got stuck less than a mile away; men walked a mile to Badwater Road and then 12 miles along another road; one man was picked up by park visitors at about 8 a.m. and the second man was taken to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada with signs of a heat-related illness; the car was towed three weeks later; both men were issued a mandatory court appearance for illegal off-road driving and the resulting damage to the park.",
   "people": "Two men",
   "navigation": "GPS; made a wrong turn onto West Side Road",
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    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The car got stuck less than a mile away, so the men walked a mile to Badwater Road, then 12 miles along another road, officials said.",
    "At 3 a.m., the two men went separate ways until one was picked up by park visitors at about 8 a.m.",
    "The park visitors then found the second man \u2014 who was showing signs of a heat-related illness \u2014 and took him to a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, officials said.",
    "A towing company used a skid steer machine to remove the car from the desert three weeks later, park officials said.",
    "Both men were issued a \"mandatory court appearance for illegal off-road driving and the resulting damage to the park,\" officials said."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "The two men [got lost in Death Valley National Park](https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/off-road-7-4-23.htm) on July 4, the National Park Service said in an Aug. 1 news release."
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    "# Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
    "Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said.",
    "They drove back and forth on a gravel road for three hours after making a wrong turn onto West Side Road, park officials said."
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   "url": "https://livemint.com/news/world/wrong-turn-amazon-delivery-driver-lands-in-water-in-uk-after-following-gps-directions-rescued-11771293415924.html",
   "title": "Wrong turn? Amazon delivery driver lands in water in UK after following GPS directions; rescued",
   "incident_date": "2024-12",
   "location": "near Bareilly, near Kalapura village, Uttar Pradesh, India",
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    "Similar incident took place in December 2024.",
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    "Three friends narrowly escaped a fatal accident near Bareilly when their car plunged 15 feet into the dry bed of the Kalapura Canal.",
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    "A routine delivery in the UK took a dangerous turn after an [Amazon ](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazon-layoffs-indian-origin-software-developer-11-years-job-cut-positive-how-you-react-important-learn-ai-skills-career-11771289995995.html)driver followed GPS directions onto a tidal route, forcing them to abandon their van as rising waters cut off escape, the *New York Post* reported."
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    "A routine delivery in the UK took a dangerous turn after an [Amazon ](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazon-layoffs-indian-origin-software-developer-11-years-job-cut-positive-how-you-react-important-learn-ai-skills-career-11771289995995.html)driver followed GPS directions onto a tidal route, forcing them to abandon their van as rising waters cut off escape, the *New York Post* reported."
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    "A routine delivery in the UK took a dangerous turn after an [Amazon ](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazon-layoffs-indian-origin-software-developer-11-years-job-cut-positive-how-you-react-important-learn-ai-skills-career-11771289995995.html)driver followed GPS directions onto a tidal route, forcing them to abandon their van as rising waters cut off escape, the *New York Post* reported."
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   "url": "http://poi-factory.com/node/14296",
   "title": "I wouldn't have thought it...",
   "incident_date": "May 31",
   "location": "Glen Canyon area, from Big Water to Escalante, Utah, USA",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Vehicle broke down after oil pan was ripped out and engine seized; couple stranded for four days, extremely dehydrated, kept at hospital overnight for observation",
   "people": "A Pennsylvania couple in their 60s",
   "navigation": "GPS unit in their vehicle advised that they could travel this route",
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    "Here's a story from the National Park Service Morning Report of June 9:",
    "Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (AZ,UT)",
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    "Here's a story from the National Park Service Morning Report of June 9:",
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    "After being stranded for four days with daytime temperatures in the high 80s, they were able to flag down a visitor on a dirt bike who called 911 on his cell phone.",
    "Classic Lifeguard launched two helicopters from Page to fly the couple out.",
    "They were extremely dehydrated and were kept at the hospital overnight for observation."
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    "Here's a story from the National Park Service Morning Report of June 9:",
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   "url": "https://techstorm.tv/finding-death-valley-california-on-a-map-why-its-not-where-you-think-mwa",
   "title": "Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
   "incident_date": "2009",
   "location": "Inyo County, California",
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   "outcome": "stranded for days",
   "people": "a woman and her son",
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    "# Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
    "### Why the Map Can Be Deceiving",
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    "### Why the Map Can Be Deceiving",
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   "url": "https://ndtv.com/offbeat/german-tourists-lost-in-australian-wilderness-after-following-google-maps-5152403",
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   "outcome": "Vehicle got stuck in mud after driving 37 miles on a deserted track; two tourists spent a week walking back to the town of Coen, unharmed after being rescued or reaching safety.",
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   "url": "https://973thedawg.com/woman-drives-car-into-water-gps-to-blame-video",
   "title": "Woman Drives Car Into Water, GPS to Blame [VIDEO]",
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   "url": "https://star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
   "incident_date": "2023-07-04",
   "location": "Death Valley National Park, California, USA",
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   "url": "https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/navi-mumbai-shocker-blind-trust-in-google-maps-sends-woman-plunging-into-waters-cyt97799",
   "title": "Navi Mumbai shocker: Blind trust in Google Maps sends woman plunging into waters",
   "incident_date": "2025-07-25",
   "location": "Navi Mumbai, near Dhruvatara Jetty, Maharashtra, India",
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   "url": "https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/navi-mumbai-shocker-blind-trust-in-google-maps-sends-woman-plunging-into-waters-cyt97799",
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   "url": "https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/navi-mumbai-shocker-blind-trust-in-google-maps-sends-woman-plunging-into-waters-cyt97799",
   "title": "Navi Mumbai shocker: Blind trust in Google Maps sends woman plunging into waters",
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   "url": "https://igvofficial.com/news/sues-google-maps-dad-dies-collapsed-bridge-north-carolina",
   "title": "Google Maps Sued After Dad Died Driving Off Collapsed Bridge On Way Home From Daughter\u2019s Birthday Party",
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   "location": "Snow Creek Bridge, Hickory, North Carolina, USA",
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   "url": "https://indiatoday.in/lifestyle/travel/story/rub-al-khali-saudi-arabia-desert-killed-telangana-man-2588127-2024-08-27",
   "title": "What lies in Rub al-Khali, world's most dangerous desert, that swallowed up Telangana man",
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   "url": "https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/death-by-gps.1314685",
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    "According to the [Canadian Press](http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/13/woman-follows-gps-ends-up-in-ontario-lake), the woman (who did not want to be identified for understandable reasons) was attempting to navigate a nighttime fog, and depended a little too heavily on the GPS to lead her in the right direction."
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   "url": "http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/608559-gee-why-not-rely-gps.html",
   "title": "Gee, why not rely on a GPS???",
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   "url": "https://wpgtalkradio.com/nj-driver-adjusting-gps-plunges-suv-into-lake-police-say",
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   "url": "https://newsbreak.com/cultivated-comfort-322399924/4529312778548-couple-s-road-trip-turns-stressful-after-gps-sends-them-down-remote-dirt-roads-with-no-cell-service",
   "title": "Couple\u2019s Road Trip Turns Stressful After GPS Sends Them Down Remote Dirt Roads With No Cell Service - NewsBreak",
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   "url": "https://munsifdaily.com/telangana-man-dies-after-getting-lost-in-saudi-desert-due-to-gps-failure",
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   "url": "https://mercurynews.com/2022/04/07/survivor-tells-how-road-trip-went-wrong-in-desert-north-of-death-valley",
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    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "On the day they went missing \u2014 Sunday, March 27 \u2014 they left Mount Shasta, Calif., on an itinerary that had them spending the night in Fallon, Nev."
   ],
   "location_evidence": [
    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "A woman who saw her husband die after they were lost for a week in the Nevada desert said they went off course by following GPS instructions and then became stranded without blankets or water.",
    "As Beverly Barker described it, once they passed Luning their GPS directed them to a small road heading into the desert south of Coaldale, at the intersection of highways 6 and 95.",
    "About two miles into that trip, the SUV got stuck as well, near 9,000-foot Red Mountain in the Silver Peak range about 25 miles north of Death Valley."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "## Her husband died after they had been stranded a week",
    "Around 3 p.m. on Monday, April 4, he died.",
    "Beverly Barker was rescued Tuesday afternoon and was taken to Reno for medical treatment."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "The account by 69-year-old Beverly Barker, who was rescued Tuesday west of the community of Silver Peak, was relayed by [her nephew Travis Peters](https://www.facebook.com/groups/706822300457674/permalink/708498393623398) on the Facebook group he set up during the search.",
    "Beverly Barker and her 72-year-old husband, Ronnie, had been on a long road trip from their Indianapolis home in their recreational vehicle."
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    "# Survivor tells how road trip went wrong in desert north of Death Valley",
    "As Beverly Barker described it, once they passed Luning their GPS directed them to a small road heading into the desert south of Coaldale, at the intersection of highways 6 and 95."
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   "url": "https://wmtw.com/article/south-carolina-couple-water-rescue-gps-driving-off-boat-dock/62243659",
   "title": "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
   "incident_date": null,
   "location": "Isle of Palms, South Carolina",
   "hazard": null,
   "outcome": "Rescued safely by strangers, vehicle submerged and later retrieved.",
   "people": "A couple in their 60s",
   "navigation": "GPS confusion",
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   "location_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "**ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (Video from WCIV) \u2014**",
    "A couple in their 60s is safe after a near disaster in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, thanks to the quick actions of strangers."
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   "outcome_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "A couple in their 60s is safe after a near disaster in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, thanks to the quick actions of strangers.",
    "The vacationing couple accidentally drove their vehicle off a marina boat dock and into the water below due to GPS confusion, leading to a dramatic rescue.",
    "\"One of our bartenders, Johnny, a former lifeguard down in Myrtle Beach, didn't even hesitate; he jumped right in and was able to pull two people out of the car before it submerged into the water,\" Sollom [told WCIV-TV](https://abcnews4.com/news/local/elderly-couple-rescued-after-driving-into-water-at-isle-of-palms-marina).",
    "The couple is doing well and plans to thank their rescuers."
   ],
   "people_evidence": [
    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "A couple in their 60s is safe after a near disaster in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, thanks to the quick actions of strangers."
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    "# Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
    "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
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   "url": "https://thepilotworks.com/finding-death-valley-california-on-a-map-why-its-not-where-you-think-mwa",
   "title": "Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
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    "# Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
    "### Why the Map Can Be Deceiving",
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    "# Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
    "### Why the Map Can Be Deceiving",
    "The \"Death by GPS\" phenomenon is a real thing in Inyo County.",
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    "# Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
    "### Why the Map Can Be Deceiving",
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    "# Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
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    "# Finding Death Valley California on a Map: Why It\u2019s Not Where You Think",
    "### Why the Map Can Be Deceiving",
    "In 2009, a woman and her son were stranded for days because their mapping software suggested a \"shortcut\" through the park that didn't exist for passenger cars."
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   "title": "NPS Park Ranger Brice Provost (1)",
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   "location": "Arizona Strip, near St. George, Arizona, USA",
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   "incident_date_evidence": [
    "### [ \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions](/news/local/i-don-t-know-how-they-did-it-man-son-walk-20-miles-for-help/article_df16e262-70fd-5a82-b31a-460e1b256258.html)",
    "The incident was reported at 7 p.m. on Jan. 6 when [\u2026]"
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    "### [ \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions](/news/local/i-don-t-know-how-they-did-it-man-son-walk-20-miles-for-help/article_df16e262-70fd-5a82-b31a-460e1b256258.html)",
    "ST. GEORGE \u2014 A family of five was rescued after a father and son walked more than 20 miles to find help, triggering a multi-agency response that searched for the group who had been stranded in mud and snow along the Arizona Strip last week."
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    "### [ \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions](/news/local/i-don-t-know-how-they-did-it-man-son-walk-20-miles-for-help/article_df16e262-70fd-5a82-b31a-460e1b256258.html)",
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    "### [ \u2018I don\u2019t know how they did it\u2019; Man, son walk 20 miles for help after family is stranded by bad GPS directions](/news/local/i-don-t-know-how-they-did-it-man-son-walk-20-miles-for-help/article_df16e262-70fd-5a82-b31a-460e1b256258.html)",
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   "url": "https://theindianeye.com/2024/08/29/telangana-man-dies-in-empty-quarter-desert-after-gps-failure-and-running-out-of-fuel",
   "title": "Telangana man dies in \u201cEmpty Quarter\u201d desert after GPS failure and running out of Fuel",
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   "location": "Rub\u2019 al Khali desert, Saudi Arabia",
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    "# Telangana man dies in \u201cEmpty Quarter\u201d desert after GPS failure and running out of Fuel",
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   "url": "https://insideedition.com/alo-how-2nd-woman-in-5-weeks-says-gps-led-her-car-into-the-waters-off-hawaii-81780",
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   "url": "https://kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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   "title": "Vacationing couple rescued from water in South Carolina after following GPS, driving off boat dock",
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    "According to [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/google-maps-collapsed-bridge-negligence-lawsuit), state troopers in North Carolina found Paxson in his overturned pickup truck beneath a bridge that had collapsed nearly *a decade* earlier\u2014the 47-year-old was dead at the scene."
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   "url": "https://jalopnik.com/sheeple-blindly-follow-google-maps-into-desert-road-nig-1851055097",
   "title": "Sheeple Blindly Follow Google Maps Into Desert Road Nightmare (Update)",
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    "Traffic chaos between L.A and Vegas. I-15 closed due to sandstorms, and people try to navigate unpaved backcountry roads. [pic.twitter.com/zVbjILzigI](https://t.co/zVbjILzigI)",
    "\u2014 Janne Kontkanen (@jannekontkanen) [November 20, 2023](https://twitter.com/jannekontkanen/status/1726402603867881829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)",
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    "Eventually, they determined that \"the nearest city was Sandy Valley,\" over 40 miles from I-15.",
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    "Everything started when Shelby Easler and her family were headed back to Southern California from Vegas after attending the [Formula 1 Race](https://jalopnik.com/everything-that-went-wrong-with-f1-s-las-vegas-grand-pr-1851043675).",
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   "url": "https://jalopnik.com/sheeple-blindly-follow-google-maps-into-desert-road-nig-1851055097",
   "title": "Sheeple Blindly Follow Google Maps Into Desert Road Nightmare (Update)",
   "incident_date": "2023-11-19",
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    "\u2014 Janne Kontkanen (@jannekontkanen) [November 20, 2023](https://twitter.com/jannekontkanen/status/1726402603867881829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)",
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    "Eventually, they determined that \"the nearest city was Sandy Valley,\" over 40 miles from I-15.",
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    "Amid the chaos, people started looking for another way around, and Google Maps suggested an alternate route, taking them onto an off-road trail that led deeper into the desert."
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    "Sheeple Blindly Follow Google Maps Into Desert Road Nightmare (Update)",
    "Easler and the other cars ended up lost in the desert, unable to get a fix on exactly where they were.",
    "Easler's group were finally able to get a tow truck out in the late afternoon, but the car was ruined from the trek.",
    "\"We had to leave the car in Vegas, and it got towed to the service center of a dealership,\" Easler said to SFGate."
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   "url": "https://techcult.com/gps-strikes-again-and-man-almost-drives-off-cliff",
   "title": "GPS strikes again and man almost drives off cliff",
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   "people": "43-year-old male, Robert Jones, who works as a driver",
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    "# GPS strikes again and man almost drives off cliff",
    "By | April 4, 2023",
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    "Thankfully, the police are charging him with being a total idiot, although they\u2019re calling it driving without due care and attention."
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   "url": "https://timesofisrael.com/waze-sends-us-driver-into-lake",
   "title": "Waze navigation app sends US driver into lake",
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    "The trio \u2014 friends from out of state driving a borrowed car \u2014 escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident."
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    "The vehicle initially slid, but the ice on the surface of Lake Champlain quickly cracked and the Jeep sank.",
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    "The trio \u2014 friends from out of state driving a borrowed car \u2014 escaped unharmed, local media and police in the city of Burlington said in their report of the January 12 incident.",
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   "title": "BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bradford",
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   "title": "Woman Drives Car Into Water, GPS to Blame [VIDEO]",
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   "url": "https://fresnobee.com/news/california/article277870248.html",
   "title": "Tourists get lost following GPS in Death Valley \u2014 then try to drive through salt flat",
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}