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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: Sat Nav (Not Completely) to blame for accident |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6646331.stm
A 20-year-old woman's car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track.
Quote: | "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 " |
Obviously not read her Highway Code recently then.
And if she'd used a paper map or a mates directions they would be to blame?
Quote: | 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. |
What did she think the light and gate was for? |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | But I would be a bit more wary of the sat nav next time because they try to take you the shortest route and not always the most accessible route and not always the safest route |
RTFM springs to mid does anyone ever use "Shortest Route" for actually driving? it is the most useless waste of menu options available.
As for parking on a railway track to then open an exit gate, well perhaps some people don’t realise they are driving over rails - hard to imagine though - fortunate that in this instance no one was injured, although you have to feel for the driver of the train - it could turn him/ her into a nervous wreck.
Blaming the Sat Nav is an easy cop-out, the fact the car driver stopped, opened a gate, drove onto a railway track and then proceeded to stop to open an exit gate is enough for me to apportion blame, will make a very interesting insurance claim all the same - Mike |
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edrtaylor Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 24, 2007 Posts: 9
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | "If maybe I had been more aware of the situation, I wouldn't have had the accident." |
Says it all really! |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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She should be prosecuted for careless driving. Stupid bint. _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Border_Collie Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 2543 Location: Rainham, Kent. England.
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | "People should be more careful with them - you never know where they might lead you." |
Should try entering in the Post Code Search LOO NIE.
Sure to end up in the right place then. :P _________________ Formerly known as Lost_Property
And NO that's NOT me in the Avatar. |
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GJF Frequent Visitor
Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 894
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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Was her surname McFly?
Maybe the car in question was a DeLorean and she was going "Back to the Future".
The sat Nav was obviously affected by the cars “Flux Capacitor”
Didn't that car run on tracks? _________________ TomTom Go 60
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GPS_fan Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 2789 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Lost_Property wrote: | Should try entering in the Post Code Search LOO NIE |
No, this was the number plate on her car
Does she not pay any attention to her surroundings??
Did she expect the GPS to avoid other traffic, observe speed limits and actually drive the car for her?
At the end of the day, she was probably just too busy talking. _________________ Andy
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14902 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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mikealder wrote: | RTFM springs to mid does anyone ever use "Shortest Route" for actually driving? it is the most useless waste of menu options available. |
Dohhh!! I like to use "Shortest Route" when I'm not in a hurry. I always use it when I take Vera out for a drive. That way we drive gently and see lots of lovely countryside and lanes. It's our favourite menu option - sorry. geek, can't help it. And you already know about me and RTFM! _________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
Two of them are obesiting!! |
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The Rudd Regular Visitor
Joined: Apr 18, 2006 Posts: 121 Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Things like this is what gives sat navs a bad name. If you are driving to France would you drive off the cliffs at Dover to go into amphibious mode if it said go straight ahead. I would think not !
Jerry |
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classy56 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 08, 2006 Posts: 441 Location: Dorset
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Whilst in Holland this week I was talking to some fellow drivers, and they were telling me about this other driver who has been sacked by two companies for following his satnav to the letter and kept getting lost!!! _________________ Tomtom Go730T
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14902 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Now THAT's an illustration of bad management! What sort of management is it that (presumably) issues him with a Satnav, but doesn't tell him how to use it? I bought my own, I'm self employed (albeit with the best boss in the world), so any problems I get into are my own fault. But if I had employees and provided them with Satnavs, no way would I just hand them out and leave them to their own devices (sic!!).
Reminds me when I first met e-mail. At work, they put it onto my computer (remote, network installation, they simply told me I'd now got e-mail) and I'd never used it before, totally new experience, just the firm's internal system (but a local council, so no small beans). So I gave it a try - found out how to fire it up, then how to write something. I wrote "This is a message" (that was before I got a super new expensive MacBook Pro 17 with lots of different keys) and sent it to my mate - I thought. But in fact, in trying to find his address, I'd clicked on "send to all", so it went to some 3,000 employees. I got a call from the IT manager to say I had virtually shut his system down on overload. I explained that it's not a wise IT policy to hand out IT without instruction. I also explained it was a poor system if he couldn't jump in and stop it. I added it was a poor system which gave me access to something that could jigger it up. It probably didn't help that I had also selected to get a receipt from all of them. I was still getting receipts from people who never looked at their e-mails, when I took early retirement 7 months later. _________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
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GPS_fan Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 2789 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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That's called SENIOR management:
Quote: | An organization is like a tree full of monkeys.
They are all on different limbs... at different levels.
Some are climbing up, some are climbing down.
The monkeys on the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.
The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but a bunch of ****holes.
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classy56 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 08, 2006 Posts: 441 Location: Dorset
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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DennisN wrote: | Now THAT's an illustration of bad management! What sort of management is it that (presumably) issues him with a Satnav,. |
It was his own Tomtom apparently 8O _________________ Tomtom Go730T
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: 24/06/2003 00:22:12 Posts: 2946 Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Looking at the picture of this car, the front of it was ripped off.
So if the train wiped out the front of the car, she must have walked OVER the railway tracks to get to the gate and open it.
Nominate this one for a Darwin Award.... _________________ Gone fishing! |
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: 24/06/2003 00:22:12 Posts: 2946 Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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