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Can someone explain to me how this is the fault of the sat nav.
If you cant recognise a level crossing you shouldn't be driving.

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

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Originally Posted by Dopey Girl

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

FFS cant you tell the difference between a railway track and a road.

Uni student, says it all :rolleyes:

I dont understand the need for SatNav, I have two maps (a UK one and a detailed london one) and combined with a bit of planning and looking at the road signs, thats all I've ever needed to get somewhere.

My mate has satnav in his car, and he used it for everything, he cant remember a route to save his bloody life!

Matt

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The crossing wasn't shown on the sat nav, there were no signs at all and it wasn't lit up to warn of an oncoming train.

That's the real issue here, not the SatNav.

In the dark, she can be forgiven for not noticing the train crossing (assuming that her lights were off on the car, and it was pitch black - no steet lighting).

The SatNav shouldn't need to show a trainline crossing on it, there should be warning at the site permanently.

What do you expect - she's from Redditch, a town full of chavs where TomTom gets lost as soon as you leave McDonalds.

But aside

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Originally Posted by Silly Girl

She said her initial thought when she heard the horn had been to get into her car and move it.

Seriously though I thought it was stupid when a mates girlfriend wrote off their new BMW convertible following TomTom into oncoming traffic but this is frankly ridiculous and I think the police should have done her for dangerous driving, as they should for anyone who uses Satnav as an excuse for p*** poor driving.

She's quite orange isn't she....

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Originally Posted by Baph (Post 1184459)

The SatNav shouldn't need to show a trainline crossing on it, there should be warning at the site permanently.

A bit further down that article is a section where it says there was a sign saying that if the light was green to open the gate to and cross the crossing.

So what does she do, opens one gate, parks on the railway track, then goes back to shut the first gate and then open the 2nd one to drive across, in the meantime a train comes.

Some people are just stupid. Surely common sense here would have been to open both gates and then drive across, not stop on the tracks.

Stupid girl.

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Originally Posted by rigor (Post 1184468)

She's quite orange isn't she....

lol, must be the Welsh solar rays. Gavin Henson looks the same.

http://www.maximuscle.com/Images/People/gavinh.jpg

Oh for god's sake, it's always someone elses fault isn't it :( Doubtless someone will advise her to sue TomTom now :( Is she saying that if she didn't have have SatNav then she wouldn't have driven into a bloody train? Is it that hard to look where you're going? If this isn't a dangerous driving charge I don't know what is, yes, roadside signage could probably be better but that doesn't exuse the responsibility to look where you're going. There's no signs around my area warning me of lamposts on the pavement (or that there's a pavement at the side and I shouldn't drive into it - hell, my sat nav doesn't warn me of pavements or lamposts either).

Bloody lucky it didn't derail the train and kill dozens of people, doubt she'd have been smiling at the funny story then. I can really see the next version being "I didn't see any road signs reminding me to take a break, so I fell asleep on the fast lane and wiped out a coach full of school kids".

Yes, I have a sat nav, and yes it's a god-send. It occasionally trys to send me into rivers - I don't drive into them and then blame the sat nav though :)