Splash Nav £96k Merc Guided into river

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...by+sat-nav+-+straight+into+a+river/article.do

 

[BTB 500]

the track is signposted as unsuitable for motor vehicles

So obviously an SL500 would be just the thing to try it in

Wonder if it was COMAND, or an aftermarket satnav?

 

[Gollom]

A candidate for the Darwin Awards maybe?

 

[wallingd]

Time for an SL500 4Matic . John do you agree?

 

[pammy]

Poor soul - I do feel for her not

No I do actually - but have these people lost all use of there eyes and common sense?

 

[Shude]

Wonder if it was COMAND, or an aftermarket satnav?

I'm not sure that it matters, the satnav had no idea the road was flooded!

A candidate for the Darwin Awards maybe?

Afraid not, as the lady appears to have survived. Death or at least sterilisation is a requirement of the Darwin Awards!

 

[GregE240]

Stupid bint.

 

[BTB 500]

I'm not sure that it matters, the satnav had no idea the road was flooded!

It wasn't a road, it was a track unsuitable for motor vehicles. So no satnav should route you down it ... obviously an issue with the map data.

And it was a ford (where the track passes through a river), not a flood!

 

[Mozzer]

Oh the irony of the river being called River Sense

 

[Dieselman]

It wasn't a road, it was a track unsuitable for motor vehicles. So no satnav should route you down it ... obviously an issue with the map data.

And it was a ford (where the track passes through a river), not a flood!

It is actually an unmade road so is legally a road but does not have a metalled surface. The ford is normally passable for the average car, but not when there is over 3 feet of floodwater rushing down it.

The whole river valley in Leicestershire is prone to flooding as there are three rivers join. If everyone just kept driving when the roads are flooded there would be thousands of stranded cars.
If this person recieves a message from her satnav to keep going, but there is a traffic jam does she just drive into the back of it.....??

Totally stupid idiot.

 

[e55]

Definately a candidate for the Darwin awards.........

 

[GRAV888]

Definately a candidate for the Darwin awards.........

Nope.
See post 6 above

 

[GRAV888]

PMSL
Write off an expensive car doing something stupid and then get a chauffeur driven Bentley to pick you up.
whatever next

 

[Dieselman]

Oh the irony of the river being called River Sense

There might be a film about this. It's going to be called "when sence met no-sense"

 

[prprandall51]

Not hard to spot the most likely offending road on this map! Looks like a handy shortcut

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=432919&y=301603&z=3&sv=432919,301603&st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

 

[GRAV888]

There might be a film about this. It's going to be called "when sence met no-sense"

Sense and sensibility. (Of which she had none)

 

[bigk]

Absolutley unbelievable, if your sat nav told you to drive off a cliff, would you do it?!! That person is completley barking. There is no excuse for such stupidity!

 

[Kompressor_Dude]

Makes me sick that morons like this have these kind of cars when there are so many people out there who would really appreciate it!

Reckon she could've bought it back off her insurance company?! I'd give her a few grand for it................then sit there for three months with a hair dryer

 

[bigk]

Your right, she does not derserve a car like that. What worries me is that someone with her 'common sense' and 'driving nounce' has been on the roads behind the wheel of a 5 litre v8 monster

 

[scotth_uk]

Leave the poor girl alone. She was clearly just eating an apple, doing her makeup, talking on the phone and watching tv at the time.

;-)