AN 80-year-old German motorist has obediently followed his navigation system all the way into a huge pile of sand, abrubtly bringing his trip to an end.
The motorist ignored a motorway “closed for construction” sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road, police have said.
“The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site,” a police spokeswoman has said.
“His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand,” she added.
The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg.
If I would have followed my borrowed nav system that closely on my way back from NC I would have drove off an overpass at about 100 feet in the air. It seems they re-designed the interchange and had not updated the GPS map yet. It was beeping at me telling me to exit left when I was 100 feet off the ground with no exit in sight.
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I bet in the US I could have found a lawyer to help me sue Garmin, the construction company, and the map maker had I done it though.