CNET Editor Death Caused by a Technical Communication Mistake?

Subject: CNET Editor Death Caused by a Technical Communication Mistake?
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:52:44 -0500

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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Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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