Google Maps “knocked down” a motorist. And it was discovered by a Spanish streamer playing Geoguessr

There are many strange places captured by Google Maps, either in its satellite view or in Street View. While discovered streamer Pol Turrents, known on Twitch as Polispol, leaves us with goosebumps. And it is that it happened to him live playing the popular game GeoGuessr.

For those unfamiliar with this game, it involves placing the player in any random location on Google Maps Street View and trying to guess the position they are in. Or at least not stay too far. In those the streamer found a motorist hit on a road in Senegal .

Knocked down by Google Maps car?

“Sorry, is someone hit by the car?” exclaimed cinematographer and streamer Pol Turrent with an obvious nervous laugh in a less than surreal moment. In the live clip, which shared a user on Twitter You can see his reaction when, in the middle of the GeoGuessr game, he found a snapshot of a man who looked like he was run over at that exact moment appearing in the middle of a road.

Here the clip pic.twitter.com/meUDQUae7S

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Since only the Google Maps car itself is visible in the images, we can hypothesize that it was this same vehicle that hit the motorcyclist. However, He could also have fallen in a collision with an obstacle in the road.. And it is that when returning to the map, we can see that the motorcyclist had already fallen before the Google Maps vehicle was close enough.

The exact location of the events is located in Senegal. Specifically at coordinates @14.351462,-12.4032439,3a,75y,63.2h,79.64t, a location that a few hours later shared on Twitter Paul himself.

another curiosity What Pol leaves us on his Twitter account is that by advancing a little further we can see another biker. Luckily, this one wasn’t run over, but what’s striking is that he’s traveling with a goat.

Given the uniqueness of this event and the reach of Pol Turrent on Twitch, it didn’t take long for the moment to go viral on social networks like Twitter. There, between surprise messages and even memes, thousands of people tried to find out more about the subject. However, It has not been revealed what really happened with the affected motorist.

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