Soemthing seems to have been lost in translation here? The "Road of Bones" is indeed infamously bad, but it's also the only road between these two extremely remote locations, I don't see how else Google could route them.
> Locally, the road is known as Trassa (Russian: Трасса – "The Route"), or Kolymskaya trassa (Russian: Колымская трасса – "The Kolyma Route"), since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads.
Update: This image makes it clearer: they were told to go on a disused stretch of road, which is where they got stuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway
> Locally, the road is known as Trassa (Russian: Трасса – "The Route"), or Kolymskaya trassa (Russian: Колымская трасса – "The Kolyma Route"), since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads.
Update: This image makes it clearer: they were told to go on a disused stretch of road, which is where they got stuck.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/481952e93a2fed32c94a09bd...