A high-powered Los Angeles couple is suing Google Maps for allegedly sending them to a dangerous South African neighborhood known as “Hell Run” — where they were brutally attacked at gunpoint, breaking the husband’s jaw.
Jason and Katharine Zoladz, who is the regional director of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s LA office, used the app in October to navigate from their Airbnb to Cape Town’s airport, the Mercury News reported.
They planned to swap their rental car for an SUV to drive to a wildlife preserve at the Kalahari Desert, the outlet said, citing a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
The couple claims Google Maps routed them into the Nyanga neighborhood, which has long been known locally as the site of “numerous” violent attacks on tourists by armed bandits – and despite warnings to the tech giant from US and…
