Another motorist “caught” by its GPS. Last weekend, on Saturday night to Sunday, a driver ended at the bottom of the Burgundy Canal in Dijon, tells an article in the public good.
An article with a magnificent photo of the first generation Citroën C4 that we can see well submerged, with its small radio antenna that comes out and the “A” of the young drivers to the right of the beams.
But how can we find ourselves in such a situation? The driver detailed the chain of events in France Bleu Bourgogne.
Panic on the cycle route
When visiting a friend in Dijon, Chardel, a 30 -year -old student from Besançon, panicked when he found himself on a cycle route, after following “a bad indication of the GPS Waze application”:
“He told me to turn right in 100 meters. But when I turned, I saw the panel of the cycle track. So I wanted to return from where it came from but the maneuver was complicated,” he explains.
An accelerator to get out of the situation finally takes him directly to the channel, fortunately superficial. The driver was able to extract from himself from the vehicle when the car was still floating on the surface and reaching the shore.
After the arrival of the police, which provides dry clothes, a crane sent on the site by its insurer will finally end up taking the water car. A machine equipped with a crane generally used for heavy products vehicles: it is necessary to add the weight of the water to the C4 of only 1.5 tons, for a total mass estimated in 5 tons by a garage employee who performed the intervention.
Do not blind your GPS
A good car for breakage and a lesson to remember this driver who fortunately left him without injuries.
“Now I will really be careful when I will use this type of application. Even the police advised me not to use them. Even if there are updates that we can do, you must be careful if you don’t know how to use it.
The opportunity to remember that you should not blindly follow your GPS and keep calm even when you are in a particular situation such as being on a cycle route.
This is also the meaning of the message that appears in GPS vehicles on board, but not necessarily mobile applications. A small text that invites you to use navigation systems with caution and that is, in all cases, the road code and the panels that are a priority in the indications given by navigation.
After its misfortune, Chardel joins a long list of people who ended up at the bottom of the water, in a lake or in the old port of Marseille, or even in the middle of a cemetery.
Source: BFM TV
