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Subject:        Re: Map responsible for death of Oregon man?
Date:   Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:09:43 -0600
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Subject:        [Re: Map responsible for death of Oregon man?
Date:   Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:32:04 -0900
From:   Dee Longenbaugh <[log in to unmask]>

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>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,234880,00.html
>
> (Excerpt)
>
> Kati Kim told officers they were traveling south from Portland on
> Interstate
> 5 and missed the turnoff to a state highway, Oregon 42, that leads
> through
> the Coast Range to Gold Beach, where they planned to stay at a resort.
>
> Officers said the couple used a map to choose the road they were
> on. "They
> got the map out - a regular highway map - that showed the route,"
> Anderson
> said.
>
> However, it wasn't clear whose map the couple used. The 2005-2007
> state
> highway map distributed by the Oregon Department of Transportation
> has a
> warning in red print, inside a red box: "This route closed in
> winter." A
> Rand-McNally map did not have a similar warning.
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