Did you hear of the woman who attempted to drive her RM700k Mercedes SL500 into through a ford - a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading - and ended up almost drowning herself?
Well now you have!
Sheepy Magna's location (centre left)
In Leicester shire, England, a woman identified only as Hayley was driving using a satellite navigation system to a christening party, and passed through a farm.
On a winding part of the journey, she missed a sign that said "UNSUITABLE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES". She was actually trusting her sat-nav which led her to the road, which was more suitable for 4x4s.
Anyway, Hayley drove on, and reached a ford in Sheepy Magna (another duh!) village. Deciding that the sat-nav was the final word on directions, she drove into the ford.
What the sat-nav failed to inform the driver was that it had been raining in good ol' Sheepy Magna for days, and the ford in the river aptly called Sense, was swollen.
The lovely car careened a distance of 600 yards downstream, bouncing off both sides of River Sense along the way. Hayley who hails from London was frantically trying to escape but presumably the doors wouldn't open due to the pressure.
The Merc finally ran aground somewhere along the river, and villager Alice Clark, 24, who owned a stable nearby rescued her.
Miss Clark said she heard cries for help, and saw Hayley trying to open the door.
‘I waded in to the chest-deep water using a log as a buoyancy aid. Just as I reached her, the electrics (in the car) went, causing the windows to open and even more water started gushing in", said Miss Clark.
She herself risked being swept away by the currents, and held on to some barbed wire attached to the bank and a log.
‘Luckily she was not a big girl so I desperately hauled her through the window into the river. Seconds later, the car became completely submerged as it filled with water," she added.
Miss Clark’s boyfriend then drove the woman to a motorway service station, when later a chauffeur-driven Bentley collected her.
The incident happened on March 3, but the ill-fated (or dumbo-owned) Merc called River Sense home for a week before a tow-truck pulled it out.
My personal take on it? Sat-nav's good, but grey matter counts. Hopefully Hayley will have more sense given that she swam in it. One thing though; she choose a nice river to get caught in. Go to this link and you'll see what I mean... http://philmorris.blogphotography.com/archives/2544_1111104791/211636
So, anybody else with a sat-nav but not much else out there? Identify yourself please; I have a tip where you can buy a Mercedes Benz SL500 real cheap...
The SL500 (from DaimlerChrysler's website)
STORY SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=442730&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments
Well now you have!
Sheepy Magna's location (centre left)
In Leicester shire, England, a woman identified only as Hayley was driving using a satellite navigation system to a christening party, and passed through a farm.On a winding part of the journey, she missed a sign that said "UNSUITABLE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES". She was actually trusting her sat-nav which led her to the road, which was more suitable for 4x4s.
Anyway, Hayley drove on, and reached a ford in Sheepy Magna (another duh!) village. Deciding that the sat-nav was the final word on directions, she drove into the ford.
What the sat-nav failed to inform the driver was that it had been raining in good ol' Sheepy Magna for days, and the ford in the river aptly called Sense, was swollen.
The lovely car careened a distance of 600 yards downstream, bouncing off both sides of River Sense along the way. Hayley who hails from London was frantically trying to escape but presumably the doors wouldn't open due to the pressure.
The Merc finally ran aground somewhere along the river, and villager Alice Clark, 24, who owned a stable nearby rescued her.
Miss Clark said she heard cries for help, and saw Hayley trying to open the door.
‘I waded in to the chest-deep water using a log as a buoyancy aid. Just as I reached her, the electrics (in the car) went, causing the windows to open and even more water started gushing in", said Miss Clark.
She herself risked being swept away by the currents, and held on to some barbed wire attached to the bank and a log.
‘Luckily she was not a big girl so I desperately hauled her through the window into the river. Seconds later, the car became completely submerged as it filled with water," she added.
Miss Clark’s boyfriend then drove the woman to a motorway service station, when later a chauffeur-driven Bentley collected her.
The incident happened on March 3, but the ill-fated (or dumbo-owned) Merc called River Sense home for a week before a tow-truck pulled it out.
My personal take on it? Sat-nav's good, but grey matter counts. Hopefully Hayley will have more sense given that she swam in it. One thing though; she choose a nice river to get caught in. Go to this link and you'll see what I mean... http://philmorris.blogphotography.com/archives/2544_1111104791/211636
So, anybody else with a sat-nav but not much else out there? Identify yourself please; I have a tip where you can buy a Mercedes Benz SL500 real cheap...
The SL500 (from DaimlerChrysler's website)STORY SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=442730&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments
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