I've Seen Some Daft Drivers Out There ...

[sunny-dave]

... but this one took the whole tin of biscuits

http://tinyurl.com/qy93ny2

Blaming poor old TomTom seems a bit of a feeble excuse

[Mosaic]

Shocking!

[Psybbo]

Doesn't Gness live somewhere round there?

[wolf63]

I thought that was a crime committed by senile oldies. How someone so young could be so unobservant - wow!!

[gness]

I do, Psybs.....but I can never give a false name to the police.....they all know me....☺

Crazy....thank goodness it happened at a quiet time......at a busy time if she was so oblivious....doesn't bear thinking about.

I had two relatives killed on the A1 when he....god knows why....went the wrong way and hit a lorry.....
We were just so thankful the lorry driver wasn't hurt....

[Bazile]

//“She said she was following her sat nav as she was taking her parents to Stansted airport.”//

However did we manage before sat nav's ?

[jno]

we had to get drunk, Bazile

[Bazile]

jno

i use to hire a retired rally co-driver

[vulcan42]

After what I noticed yesterday I'm convinced they are not being taught properly. I passed a driving instructors car and the two people were both fairly young so I'm not sure if the driver was the instructor or the pupil, but either way he was in the wrong, he was holding his mobile.

[Old_Geezer]

Some folk seem not to be able to pass the common sense requirement for driving.

I can understand making a wrong turn, folk inadvertently do silly things sometimes, but 30 miles ? I guess if all the traffic was in one lane it's possible to think you are on a normal road,: just. But really ...

[Hopkirk]

Almost as good as this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_U1LGiZ5HE

[tonyav]

And this pair, strangely enough no mention of a sat nav.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-news/2015/08/05/lorry-pair-banned-after-driving-wrong-way-on-m6-toll/

[Hopkirk]

This guy was probably following his satnav.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/14/article-2074056-0F2C426900000578-354_638x412.jpg

[jno]

that's rather good, divebuddy. I hope for his own safety he's still there.

[ummmm]

How crazy is this?

[SpikeyBush]

Satnavs can be a great asset when finding an address in an unfamiliar city but you need to have a good idea of where you are going in the first place. This reminds me of an article I read in the paper about an ambulance driver and his satnav. Fortunately it was not a paramedic in an emergency ambulance, just a minibus taking an old dear home after a hip op from a hospital in central London. Said old dear lived in London SW17 but the ambulance driver mistakenly entered SK17 into his satnav which is Stockport, Greater Manchester. He did not twig that something was wrong until he was passing Knutsford Services on the M6.

There should be an aptitude test undertaken before anyone is allowed to purchase or use a satnav device.