Miscellaneous incidents

The Mail article referred to in the previous post provides an amusing miscellany of recent satnav errors that had come to their attention.

"It was revealed a Four Tops tribute band missed a concert this week after they set their satnav system for Chelmsford instead of Cheltenham."

More alarmingly, "a woman dodged oncoming traffic for 14 miles after misreading her satnav and driving the wrong way up a dual carriageway. The young woman, who has not been named, joined the A3M - which links Portsmouth and London - on the southbound side but then headed north.She drove almost a third of the way to London in the fast lane before she was stopped by police at a roundabout near Liss in Hampshire."

More typical is the reference on the Wiltshire village of Luckington, where "dozens of drivers have blithely followed directions from their satnav systems, not realising that the recommended route goes through a ford. Several motorists have had to be towed out."

Here, reports the Mail, "enterprising local farmers have capitalised on this, charging motorists £25 a time to rescue their stranded vehicles."