Sat-nav drivers land in deep water again

Motorists were furious at being stranded in up to 4ft of water yesterday after satellite navigation systems sent many away from a road closure and into a river. Cars, vans and motorbikes have come to grief because the systems send them across a ford on the Avon, in Wiltshire.

Hellloooo? Anything inside the head there?

The problem – near the village of Luckington – has occurred because a main road a mile away is closed, following the collapse of a wall, and drivers are warned to “seek alternative routes”. Most satellite systems send traffic into the village and across the ford, known locally as The Splash, in the hamlet of Brook End.

From the time the Chief was in England, he seems to recall that cars over there have windows, just like ours. Like other devices however, they apparently only work if you use them.

Locals are reported to have been charging as much as £25 to pull motorists out.

Cheap at the price. Sort of a local tax on stupidity.

“Before the road closure there was one a week but now we’re getting one or two a day,” said Mrs Bennett, a photographer.

“When the driver’s car conks out he looks stunned and when you ask him what happened he says: ‘My sat-nav told me it was this way’. There are signs warning about the water but the fools just plough on regardless.”

Sort of helps answer the question of what happened to the former British Empire – the smart ones must have emigrated.