Well, this one has got listed by the BBC as another satnav idiocy, but it’s not really. A Redditch student (I’m reliably informed that those two words tell you all you need to know) comes accross a manual, unattended level crossing, and parks her car on the railway tracks, only to see it get smashed into by a train. <\/p>\n
BBC<\/a> Her boyfriend Tom Finucane <\/p>\n was appalled by the incident, and is planning to campaign to get the crossing changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’ve got a simpler one Tom. Rule 269 handily suggests:<\/p>\n \n# open the gates or barriers on both sides of the crossing The only bearing the satnav has on this is that it directed her down a little-used minor road, but other fucktards are saying:<\/p>\n Will a complaint be made to the designers\/suppliers of the sat nav system. For it is a failure of that which ultimately lead to Paula driving down a lane, and across a railway – the location of she was unaware of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh For Fucks Sake. The long strips of shiny metal glinting in the headlights didn’t give it away? Or the signs?<\/p>\n One comment actually has the good sense to observe:<\/p>\n \nIf people do not know the Highway Code, how is that the fault of the railway system?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Another example of ‘someone does something stupid, so we must change the rules to accomodate thick people’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, this one has got listed by the BBC as another satnav idiocy, but it’s not really. A Redditch student (I’m reliably informed that those two words tell you all you need to know) comes accross a manual, unattended level crossing, and parks her car on the railway tracks, only to see it get smashed … Continue reading Darwinism Fails<\/span>
\nWestern Telegraph<\/a>
\nThe crossing<\/a> (though viewed from the opposite side).<\/p>\n
\nTry telling her to Read the highway code<\/a>, and perhaps think?<\/p>\n
\n# check that the green light is still on and cross quickly
\n# close the gates or barriers when you are clear of the crossing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
![The crossing<\/a> (though viewed from the opposite side).<\/p>\nHer boyfriend Tom Finucane <\/p>\nwas appalled by the incident, and is planning to campaign to get the crossing changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI’ve got a simpler one Tom.\nTry telling her to Read the highway code<\/a>, and perhaps think?<\/p>\nRule 269 handily suggests:<\/p>\n\n# open the gates or barriers on both sides of the crossing\n# check that the green light is still on and cross quickly\n# close the gates or barriers when you are clear of the crossing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe only bearing the satnav has on this is that it directed her down a little-used minor road, but other fucktards are saying:<\/p>\nWill a complaint be made to the designers\/suppliers of the sat nav system. For it is a failure of that which ultimately lead to Paula driving down a lane, and across a railway – the location of she was unaware of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOh For Fucks Sake. The long strips of shiny metal glinting in the headlights didn’t give it away? Or the signs?<\/p>\nOne comment actually has the good sense to observe:<\/p>\n\nIf people do not know the Highway Code, how is that the fault of the railway system?<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnother example of ‘someone does something stupid, so we must change the rules to accomodate thick people’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, this one has got listed by the BBC as another satnav idiocy, but it’s not really. A Redditch student (I’m reliably informed that those two words tell you all you need to know) comes accross a manual, unattended level crossing, and parks her car on the railway tracks, only to see it get smashed … Continue reading Darwinism Fails<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.westerntelegraph.co.uk\/_images\/db\/42\/91\/LEVELCROSSING1.429125.full.jpg\"){kind=link}