Car breaks into frozen canal - driver blames GPS
Created: 12/29/2022, 4:30 p.m
By: Sebastian Oppenheimer
In Indianapolis, a woman drove her car over an icy canal - and finally broke in.
She explained to the fire department that the navigation system was to blame.
As a driver, you sometimes wonder how that was even possible in the past: Reaching a previously unknown destination – just with a paper map.
Well, sometimes asking passers-by for the right way might also help.
What a relief there are navigation systems, which are installed in almost every new car today.
If not, you just use the smartphone, which usually also has an integrated GPS.
However, there is one thing you should definitely avoid: blindly following the navigation system.
Otherwise you end up like an Opel driver who recently got stranded on a staircase.
His navigation system even led a bicycle courier into the Hamburg Elbe tunnel.
Now, in the United States, a woman drove her car on a frozen canal – and broke in.
Blame was once again the GPS - allegedly.
In Indianapolis, a 33-year-old drove on an icy canal – and finally broke into her car.
© Facebook (Indianapolis Fire Department)
Car breaks into frozen canal - driver blames GPS
As the Indianapolis Fire Department reported on Facebook, the 33-year-old drove her car down an embankment, through a park and then onto the frozen canal.
Video, apparently taken by a group of skaters, shows the cart zipping past them on the ice:
Car breaks into ice channel – “Some people should just have their driver’s license taken away”
Because the ice actually supported the vehicle, the woman continued on her journey until she finally ended up in a dead end – and turned around.
But then the ice gave way – and the woman broke in with her car.
However, the “ice driver” was lucky: with the help of passers-by, she made it out of the car and was taken to the lobby of a hotel.
She was then taken to a hospital for an examination.
She explained to the fire brigade employees that her GPS had led her to the canal.
This statement is commented on accordingly under the Facebook post of the fire brigade:
"This sat nav needs an update."
"Whatever the cocktail 'GPS' is, it seems pretty strong."
"I assume the sat nav was set to pedestrian mode."
"All I can say is: Wow!"
"Some people should just have their driver's license taken away."
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In this case, however, it is rather questionable whether the navigation system was actually to blame for this odyssey: According to various US media reports, the 33-year-old was finally arrested for drunk driving.
