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Woman Sues Google After Attempting to Cross Street

   Published Date: June 2, 2010

Reno, NV (GlossyNews) — A Reno NV woman became the second person to sue Google because of an issue with Google Maps. Similar to an earlier action in Park City, UT, the woman, Eustancia Dumas is suing Google for poor directions related to the walking instructions Google offered. The woman claims that Google did not go into enough detail about how to cross the street.

Ms Dumas, who recently moved to Reno, consulted Google Maps to find a route to the local Piggly Wiggly. Dumas, who doesn’t drive and usually has others deliver her groceries, decided that the store was close enough for her to walk. She consulted Google Maps to offer her a walking route to the store, which was 3/4 of a mile down the sidewalk on the same street.

Dumas had crossed two streets and was in the process of crossing the third when she was mowed down by an adolescent driving a Schwinn brand Stingray bicycle. Dumas had not looked prior to crossing the road and had stepped out in front of the bicycle which was moving at an estimated 12 miles per hour at the time of the accident.

Dumas stated in her lawsuit that Google never offered her any simple guidance on how to safely cross the street. She contends that language such as “look both ways, before crossing”, “look left first” or even “cross in the crosswalk”, could have prevented the accident and her injury.

“There must be thousands of people out there everyday who have accidents or close calls because there is no warning about what might be coming down the road,” Dumas said from her hospital bed.

Dumas is suing google and google maps for $100,001.00

Dumas suffered severe superficial lacerations to her upper thigh from the chrome fender of the Stingray. She also suffered non life-threatening lacerations, abrasions and contusions with embedded substances in her hands and knees, commonly called “Road Rash” or “Strawberries”. Doctors have kept her overnight on the 13th floor of the Nevada State Hospital for observations.

Kyle ‘Kit’ Carson, the 12 year old pilot of the Schwinn Stingray was booked into Washoe County jail and held without bail on two counts of reckless endangerment, lack of safety equipment, failure to register the little tag under the bike with the local police and possession of a controlled substance (airplane glue). Carson’s statement that he was racing home from a friend’s house to complete a newly purchased model airplane is being investigated.

Attorneys for Google Inc have asked Glossy News to stop calling.

Author: Reverend Mike

@rev_rend Reverend Mike is a contributing editor for Glossy News. He was a Combat Chaplain with the Soviet Red Army in the 1980s. A career which he describes as an 'unappreciated field of endeavor'. He later worked as an Information Officer with the TASS News Agency on assignment in White Sands, NM. The collapse of the Soviet Union left him unemployed and homeless. He survived by selling magazine subscriptions door to door disguised as a college coed. He was later kidnapped and taken to Shanghai where he was sold into a white slavery ring. He lived as a concubine for a Japanese music industry mogul until 2002 when a wardrobe malfunction revealed his true identity. He found himself homeless and unemployed again, with only his collection of Polaroid snap shots. Reverend Mike has since scraped together a meagre living by blackmailing Japanese industrialists. Reverend Mike lives in a small 5 bedroom penthouse flat overlooking Central Park in New York City. His hobbies include exotic motorcycles, supermodels and owning small nations....