Ad Danny Sullivan explained in his amazing story, Woman Follows Google Maps "Walking" Directions, Gets Hit, Sues, Lauren Rosenberg was hit by a car as she walked between two locations in Park City, Utah. Using her BlackBerry phone, she'd used Google Maps and its "walking directions" feature to generate a route. Those directions sent her down "Deer Valley Drive," an alternative name for Utah State Route 224. She was struck on that highway.
Danny then had a follow up with Rosenberg's lawyer. I strongly recommend you read both stories when you have some free time. It is really an amazing story.
Then to follow up, not only was this woman hit by a car, and then decided to hit Google back - but Danny's story, like so many times, was stolen without credit by numerous news organizations. This happens often, but Danny finally complained. So Danny was also hit by this as well.
In any event, I really can't add much, but I wanted to make sure our readers saw this story.
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