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Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 01:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Mark Brader)
Subject: Another sat-nav accident: car destroyed, driver escapes
Accepting satellite-navigation directions without sufficient thought has caused another accident. A young woman in Great Britain followed its directions onto a country lane which was blocked by a gate. At first she thought it was a dead end, she said, but "the sat nav insisted it was the correct way so I opened it and drove through."
After the first gate there was a second one, so she got out to close the first gate and open the second one, apparently not thinking about why there might be two gates across a road, or why there was a sign saying to proceed
"if the light is green". (None of the news reports I found says any more about that light than that the sign existed.)
while she was out of her car, a train came along the tracks and demolished it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/6646331.stm
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_headline=sat-nav-guides-driver-into-path-of-train&method=full&objectid=19083438&siteid=50082-name_page.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/11/nsatnav11.xml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453991&in_page_id=1770
