Something just hit her car!!

[robert.saunders]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6646331.stm

I can't believe some people are even allowed to drive a car; or they eat stupid pills before they venture out?

Rob

EDIT: I see this is similar to Howard's post? Altho' I can't see the details on that one anymore....

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=34831

 

[pammy]

She is lucky to be alive!!! How come they always blame the sat nav - what happened to personal responsibility? or just admitting you've been a twit?

 

[BTB 500]

Yup I saw that, amazing that Sat Nav is being blamed.

Speaking of which, I have a feeling that too many people have their satnav options set to "shortest route" (which WILL route you down little lanes etc.) rather than "quickest route" (which nearly always sticks to main roads).

 

[Carrotchomper]

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

"I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,"

Another complete non-story of someone who should not be on the roads- If she can't work out it is a train track she is entering, with all attendant warning signs, then heaven knows what she does at pedestrian crossings.

 

[Rose Chap]

"Potential Darwin Award Winner Saved By Quick Witted Train Driver"

 

[Shude]

This is not the first, nor is it the last.

It's the train driver I feel sorry for, I bet he was bricking it when he hit the car.

 

[robert.saunders]

It's the train driver I feel sorry for, I bet he was bricking it when he hit the car.

How very true

 

[Hanzz]

"I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she said.

How stupid can people be, she even opened a gate to get there.Oh dear...

 

[Shude]

EDIT: I see this is similar to Howard's post? Altho' I can't see the details on that one anymore....

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=34831

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6280053.stm

Motorist drove onto railway line
Trains had to be delayed for an hour when a woman drove onto a railway line and then blamed the satellite navigation system in her car.
The 52-year-old from Dorking, Surrey, was waiting at a level crossing in Pevensey, East Sussex, when she claims the device told her "to turn left".

She then drove her Ford Fiesta onto the track, blocking two lines, British Transport Police (BTP) said.

Tuesday evening's trains between Brighton and Hastings were delayed.

Obstructing railway

"The woman told police she turned onto the track 'because my sat-nav device told me to'," a BTP spokeswoman said.

She added that the driver had been reported for obstructing the railway and driving without due care and attention.

"She will be summonsed to court to explain her actions.

"Police are also making inquiries with the sat-nav company about the error."

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

As Lloyd Grossman says on Throuuuuugh the Keyhole, "the clues are out there"...

"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 there was train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing.

Is she being serious that she didn't know it was a railway line until she heard the train coming? Those metal ridges running left to right, airlock gates, warning signs and green-light would have hinted to me that there was something unusual here.

Why would you park between the gates? Surely you'd open both, drive through both, and then close both??

Wanted to be on the TV if you ask me.

Chief Inspector Paul Richards of British Transport Police said they were investigating the incident.

"We would advise people to use sat navs with due caution," he added.

Surely the advice should be to cross level crossings with due caution?? It seems to me that the fact she was using a sat nav device actually has little relevence in this case.

 

[Carrotchomper]

I tell you what though, if I ever want rid of my car I'll just fire up the satnav, find a suitable railway track and crack on...

 

[glojo]

Private property? Not a road? I would love it if the insurance wouldn't pay, but no doubt they will. I can see the queue of lawyers all waiting to represent her, suing the Sat Nav manufacturer for post traumatic stress and a thousand other symptoms that will develop.

John

 

[MBManInKen]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6646331.stm

I can't believe some people are even allowed to drive a car;

I though you said she was driving a car, turns out it was a clio .

Seriously, what hope is there with drivers like that on the road? Unfortunately, on this occasion natural selection seems to have failed in removing her from the gene pool...

 

[Swiss Toni]

Hard to know where this would stand in Scotland, but there would be a pretty good case for prosecuting in England.

Nice to know we all share the road with folks whose competency and attention put them in such positions...

 

[gina2201]

Surely having to open a gate to get somewhere would arouse your suspicion? She must have known it wasn't a 'normal' road?

 

[fredfloggle]

Now she definitely puts the wrong type of fuel in her car without a doubt - student ? studying what ? The country is finished if that is our future .
Been said already , I know , but opens the gate , drives on , then opens the next gate - what a silly mare .

 

[fredfloggle]

Surely having to open a gate to get somewhere would arouse your suspicion? She must have known it wasn't a 'normal' road?

No , she has 23 moving parts , and none of them are in her head .
She wants to be prosecuted for Dangerous driving . could have turned out a lot different - stupid , stupid girl .

 

[nick mercedes]

No , she has 23 moving parts , and none of them are in her head .
She wants to be prosecuted for Dangerous driving . could have turned out a lot different - stupid , stupid girl .

I think she's made from different parts, look how her hands are one colour and her face is a completely different colour.

Has someone built themselves an idiot?

 

[gina2201]

She said she didn't realise it was a train track...

Did she not have her headlights on??
Certainly a light wasn't on in her head!

 

[illidan]

She seems the type that if her sat-nav had said "take the next left then 100 metres ahead go straight down face of cliff" she would have done. Should be done for careless driving and should also go to spec savers.