Sat nav leads driver to cliff

Date: 25/03/2009 11:01

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One Yorkshire motorist may be thankful for his car insurance after he followed his sat nav down a footpath - and right to the edge of a cliff.

Robert Jones, from Doncaster, followed his sat nav directions down a footpath in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, when he was travelling to visit friends.

However, he eventually came to a stop when his car hit a fence on a cliff above Gauxholme railway bridge, leaving it teetering over the 100 ft high edge.

According to the Telegraph, the rescue operation to recover the car took nine hours.

The newspaper notes that Mr Jones can "expect to receive a hefty recovery bill" to cover the cost of the incident.

He told the source that the sat nav kept insisting the narrow path was a road and that - despite the incident taking place in broad daylight - he followed the directions.

"I guess I'm just lucky the car didn't slip all the way over the edge but it's been a bit of a nightmare," he admitted.

Car insurance from InsureandGo can help motorists feel reassured that should an incident occur, they are covered for the financial cost of repairs.
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