An FIR has been filed against a Google regional manager and PWD engineers after a car accident led to three fatalities when the vehicle fell from an under-construction bridge in Bareilly. This incident raises significant safety concerns regarding the integrity of road signs and barriers at the construction site.

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Tech giant Google is assisting authorities investigating the deaths of three men who allegedly drove off an unfinished bridge in UP while following a direction on Google Maps, AFP reported.

Four engineers of Uttar Pradesh's Public Works Department and a Google Maps official have been booked after three men died in a car crash while following navigation directions over an under-construction bridge.

In May this year, a group of tourists from Telangana's Hyderabad narrowly escaped a major tragedy when their SUV drove into a flooded canal after they followed Google Maps.

Three friends lost their lives in the Bareilly car accident when their vehicle, misled by GPS, plunged off an under-construction bridge.

Bareilly, UP: Kaushal, Vivek, and Amit attended a wedding and used Google Maps on their way back. The map directed them to an incomplete bridge. The car sped ahead, fell down, and all three tragically lost their lives. [Amrit Vichar] pic.twitter.com/wjyB68q67j — زماں (@Delhiite_) November 24, 2024

Three men die after their car, led by Google Maps, plunges into a partially constructed bridge in Uttar Pradesh

The trio died on November 23 after their car plunged into the Ramganga River from an unmarked, broken bridge on the Bareilly-Budaun border while they were getting directions from Google Maps