Watch Out, Sat Nav's About

I'm a big fan of my of TomTom sat nav, but I am the first to admit that it doesn't always get it right. Like the time when it tried to take me up the "Police Access Only" junction onto the M11, 5 miles from junction I was supposed to use! Now it turns out there are people in this world who are trusting their sat nav more than their two little eyes...

"In the most recent case, drivers passing through the village of Luckington have found themselves landing in the River Avon, by following a GPS-recommended route that pointed to a bridge that has been closed for a week. Despite warning signs on both sides of the road, and nothing but water straight ahead, local villagers have found themselves pulling an average of two cars a day out of the river for the past week. "When you ask what happened, they say, ‘My sat-nav told me it was this way,'" one resident told The Times. Meanwhile, the village of Crackpot (yes, that's really its name) has had to deal with drivers whose navigation systems have directed them to the edge of a cliff with a hundred-foot drop. So far, there have been no serious injuries, but drivers have found themselves stranded on a rocky path. "It's only a matter of time before something happens," said one resident." Link to Story