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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:49 pm    Post subject: Sat Nav (Not Completely) to blame for accident Reply with quote

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.

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"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?

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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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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"If maybe I had been more aware of the situation, I wouldn't have had the accident."


Says it all really! Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

She should be prosecuted for careless driving. Stupid bint.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"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
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lost_Property wrote:
Should try entering in the Post Code Search LOO NIE


No, this was the number plate on her car Exclamation Laughing

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.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Embarassed geek, can't help it. And you already know about me and RTFM!
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 !

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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!!!
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's called SENIOR management:

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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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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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....
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a picture of the crossing. Was the crossing adequately marked? You decide.

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/_images/db/42/91/LEVELCROSSING1.429125.full.jpg
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