When sat nav attacks
The BBC reports [emphasis added]:
A 20-year-old student's car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track."I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she said.
"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it."I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through."
"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me.
"Then I heard this train and I noticed train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing.
"I could feel the air just pass me and then my car just did a 360 degree turn on the tracks and was knocked to the other side."
She said her initial thought when she heard the horn had been to get into her car and move it.
"It was so quick that if I had done that, I would have been in the car when it was hit," she said.
Ms Ceely said she had been "really lucky".
Really lucky, or unbelievably stupid, whaddya reckon?


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Comments
Unbelievably stupid in my reckoning.
The light wouldn't have been green if the train was comming, and you think she would have seen the track and looked both ways
Posted by: Faded_Mantis | May 26, 2007 2:55 AM