posted by admin on Jul 1
Sat Nav has brought bridges and power cables to destruction!!
Apparently there has been a huge increase in damage to bridges and other structures in town and villages due to van and lorry drivers following their sat nav instructions rather than common sense!
The New Sign.
The final images of these new signs (as if we didn’t have enough already) are in place for the Dept of Transport – who hope the image will be easily understood by drivers with ‘a weak grasp of english’. The most likely sign is simply a lorry in profile with a red line through it – but if the drivers or great big lorries can’t see that tiny, low-arched brick-built bridge in front of them in the first place – what do they care about the latest sign???
Apparently inappropriate routing by sat nav is very common these days, as there are huge numbers of drivers either unknowingly or to save money, using software designed for cars when driving larger vans and lorries – which of course cannot use many of the same routes.
Some drivers seemingly follow the sat nav regardless of common sense or prevailing circumstances and are pulling down power lines, hedges, walls and bridges all over the UK.
What’s The Damage?
Network Rail reports damages of around £15 million to their low or narrow bridges – with the overall number of incidents more than doubling over the past 10 years.
Absurdly there has also been a huge and dangerous increase in the numbers of drivers who actually drive up the train track itself rather than the road just after the crossing that the sat nav directed them into!!!!!! This recent invention is surely available to the wrong kind of people!!!
Drivers are apparently also being distracted from driving while typing in destinations etc, and the Ministry of Transport are trying to encourage lorry drivers from national companies to take sat nav training before using the software.
Whatever next…...
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