Davey Winder
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:15
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So who deserves to be in our top five of stupid satnav
users? Well there can be little doubt that Graham Foster has earned his
place in the hall of satnav shame. The Mirror reports that he claimed
his satnav was to blame for making him drive on the railway tracks in
Northumberland, UK. A court heard how his delivery van, yes this twit
was a professional delivery driver, crashed into an express train on
the Newcastle to Carlisle railway line. Luckily none of the 45
passengers on board the train was hurt. The court, by the way, did not
punish the satnav device but gave Foster a suspended jail term instead.
He also earns position number five in our list.
Just as daft, and in at number four, we have the
woman who managed to
drive the wrong way up a UK motorway for no less than 14 miles
in the fast lane as he satnav had ordered her so to do.
Straight in at number three has to be the
ambulance crew
which got lost driving to hospital in Lincolnshire, UK. Having
collected the patient, who had collapsed suffering from heart and
kidney problems, the faulty satnav unit failed to get the crew to the
hospital in Grimsby, where they had only been once before. The
paramedic who was attending to the 21 year old girl ended up climbing
into the front to assist the driver. The father of the girl, following
in his car, got to the hospital before the emergency ambulance. A
spokesman for the East Midlands Ambulance Service said that staff would
get additional training to ensure they know where the hospitals are as
a result.
So who has made it into the top two most stupid satnav drivers ever? Read on and all will be revealed...
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