Come on ride the train


Some people are tech savvy, others not so much. Such is the case of 20-year old Paula Ceely, whom the BBC says is blaming her GPS Navigation system because her car was totaled by a train. She claims that on a trip from Redditch, Worcestershire, to Carmarthenshire her satnav system took her across a poorly marked rail crossing.

She recounted: "Obviously I had never done the journey before so I was using the satnav - completely dependent on it. 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. 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.

"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me. Then I heard this train and I noticed there was train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing..."

"I put my complete trust in the satnav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train. The crossing wasn't shown on the satnav, there were no signs at all, and it wasn't lit up to warn of an oncoming train."


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There was a time, before women won the right to vote, work, be independent etc, that a woman would have been ashamed to admit to such air headedness, let alone use it as an excuse.

She must be terrified of solar storms.

Posted by: mikem at May 11, 2007 4:54 PM
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