GEE, YA THINK!?

[volksdragon]

Grrrr....

Woman hit by train while driving blames Satellite Navigation System. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6646331.stm

"I can't completely blame the sat nav because up until there, it did get me where I needed to go," she added.

...

"If maybe I had been more aware of the situation, I wouldn't have had the accident."


NO KIDDING.

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[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

Translation:

"I'm a high maintenance moron who expects others to do EVERYTHING for me. I'm too stupid to notice railroad tracks and need them pointed out to me. I'm incapable of accepting responsibility for my own actions."

It's a shame she didn't get back into the car before the train hit. It would have benefited the gene pool.

[gala.livejournal.com]

Not that I stand up for stupidity, but to be fair, it seems like the train signal was the real failure point here. If she saw a red light, would she have opened the gate to go through? And why wouldn't the satellite navigation have put 'railroad crossing' on its map?

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I agree.

"I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she said.

"The crossing wasn't shown on the sat nav, there were no signs at all and it wasn't lit up to warn of an oncoming train.

"Obviously I had never done the journey before so I was using the sat nav - completely dependent on it," she said.

"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it

"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through.

The car was hit up the railway line in the collision

"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me.

"Then I heard this train and I noticed train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing.

"I just stood back and I just watched this train come in front of me.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

How do you not notice driving over TRAIN TRACKS? When you have to STOP to open a GATE across the road, would you not LOOK and see where you were going to be driving?

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Again quoting from the article (emphasis added):

She was trying to cross the line in the dark when she heard a train horn, realised she was on the track, and the train smashed into the car.

I didn't think I needed to include that in the quote before because it is the third paragraph of the story. But if you were reading fast you might have missed it, as I know I sometimes do.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to not be quite as harsh about it; it sounds like the
crossing was easily mistaken for a farmer's livestock gate, in which
case treating it like an airlock and opening them one at a time makes
perfect sense. Why she didn't notice the TRACKS upon opening the gate
and before driving in is a bit beyond me, though.

[string-on-desk.livejournal.com]

I agree not to be as harsh about it. Though I also agree that there had to have been something wrong with the light by the gate because I doubt that if the light were not green that she would have opened the gate as she seems to be the kind of person who follows directions unwaveringly.

And she was driving at night so it would have been more difficult to notice the train tracks especially on a road where the rails tend to be flush with the road. So I could understand her not noticing the tracks given the personality she seems to have.

So given her personality, it does all make sense. And, that being said, I have no problem pointing her out for the sheep she is.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Love the icon! Where from?

Freefall!

[marmota.livejournal.com]

http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01268.htm

Re: Freefall!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

OMG. I just followed the link & spent about 20 minutes reading the strip.

Bookmarked, believe it!

[noodlefan.livejournal.com]

LOLOL...

If April 1 weren't so long ago, I would've thought...

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Apparently this happens a lot in Germany -- the GPS thing says "Turn left" and they turn left right then, not at the next left -- which lands them in, if they're lucky, a field or some mud.

Germans, apparently, are still both obedient and literal.