Satnav does it again.
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Satnav does it again.
White van man airlifted to safety after satnav sends him to top of mountain | Mail Online
This white van man had a lucky escape after his satnav sent him to the top of a mountain by mistake.
Driver Robert Ziegler, 37, found himself stranded near the peak at Bergun, Switzerland, after he was directed up a 'glorified goat track'.
Unable to go forward or turn around to go back the way he came, he was forced to call the emergency services.
Rescue workers scrambled a heavy lifting helicopter to carry the van and its driver to safety after he dialed for help on his mobile phone.
'I was lost and I kept hoping that each little turn would get me back to the main road. In the end it told me to turn around but of course I couldn't by then,' Mr Ziegler told police.
A fire brigade spokesman said: 'He claims he didn't see any footpath signs but he must have been a pretty fair driver to get that far up a glorified goat track.'
Driver Robert Ziegler, 37, found himself stranded near the peak at Bergun, Switzerland, after he was directed up a 'glorified goat track'.
Unable to go forward or turn around to go back the way he came, he was forced to call the emergency services.
Rescue workers scrambled a heavy lifting helicopter to carry the van and its driver to safety after he dialed for help on his mobile phone.
'I was lost and I kept hoping that each little turn would get me back to the main road. In the end it told me to turn around but of course I couldn't by then,' Mr Ziegler told police.
A fire brigade spokesman said: 'He claims he didn't see any footpath signs but he must have been a pretty fair driver to get that far up a glorified goat track.'
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WHAT 
- I wonder who gets to pay the bill ?
Why on Earth couldn't the van have been reversed out
Even without someone acting as a Banksman ( or Goat Track Man ).....
I hear these come in quite useful :
But you do have to train the driver how to use them
- I wonder who gets to pay the bill ?Why on Earth couldn't the van have been reversed out
Even without someone acting as a Banksman ( or Goat Track Man ).....
I hear these come in quite useful :
But you do have to train the driver how to use them
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From: A very long way North
Perhaps a winner for the longest satnav "detour":
Syrian lorry driver takes a 1,600 mile detour to Gibraltar via Skegness thanks to sat nav - Telegraph
You would have thought the ferry or the Channel Tunnel would have been a clue?
Syrian lorry driver takes a 1,600 mile detour to Gibraltar via Skegness thanks to sat nav - Telegraph
You would have thought the ferry or the Channel Tunnel would have been a clue?
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From: St Johns, Newfoundland,Canada
Quote; Rescue workers scrambled a heavy lifting helicopter to carry the van and its driver .
Can;t qiute see, unless they fixed the little engineer jump seat on the side, how a Kmax rescued the driver. Unless...... no I;m not even going to think they lifted van with driver inside. 
Can;t qiute see, unless they fixed the little engineer jump seat on the side, how a Kmax rescued the driver. Unless......
no I;m not even going to think they lifted van with driver inside.
