This will be a rental car. They are in for a huge bill from the rental company as not a chance this is covered under their terms.
Over 4 hours recovery loads of damage. Easily £8k bill headed their way
I hope they get ripped by the rental company for 1. Driving a hire car in a place they shouldn’t and 2. Abandoning the car in the middle of nowhere to continue travel plans.
How damn selfish to just leave the car there for everyone local to deal with.
Of course it was Juke, and of course it was a yank haha.
I was once navigating for a friend in London (he was driving 4 of us into town for an after work thing). I accidentally had my phone on walking directions instead of driving so when we got into the city it started giving directions like turning into a pedestrian only gate into green park.
My friend and I, not being FUCKING IDIOTS, simply went “that doesn’t seem right” and carried on driving in a safe and appropriate manner while I corrected the satnav (and realised the mistake).
I’ve never understood the drive down a stairs/into a river/off a cliff brigade… are they driving purely by looking at the Satnav without using the windows at all? Do they see the water and just go “satnav says drive into the lake so I’ll drive into the lake”… are they just fucking drunk?
No need for a sat nav to get to Tenby, just go to oneby, twoby, threeby, fourby etc.
And as for how you get two whales in a mini, the answer is “over the Severn bridge.”
I’m here all week
> Tourists ~~using sat-nav~~ who ignored every sign and used no common sense jam car in narrow Tenby footpath
FTFY.
> “[The walls were] touching on both sides of the car,” he said. “They got it wedged and they just put more power on.
I hope they got a massive bill for this, both for the damage to the car and for the time and effort that it cost to deal with their idiocy.
It says – They were talking about cutting up the car where it was and scrapping it.
Trying to work out the exact location, assume that’s the lifeboat station in the background they’ve somehow made it about 150m along a footpath. Surely sat nav can’t be blamed as Google Maps and OpenStreetMap don’t show it as a road at that point.
In the more rural parts of the UK I often swear at the satnav woman. For some reason Google thinks that cart tracks are suitable for a big panel van. Although I do encourage her with my love of “not suitable for HGVs” and single track roads. Sadly common sense is not as common as it once was.
Fucking Yanks assuming everywhere is driveable. Idiocy of the highest order.
For context [here](https://maps.app.goo.gl/1JuiSqTi1uatSwSE9) is how the path develops. Dear God. Even if that was a legitimate road I’d most definitely not be taking it.
It’s like that scene from The Office US when Michael drives into the lake because the sat-nav told him to. You are free to use your own judgement with a sat-nav, however it seems these tourists might have done just that, only they lacked any common sense and felt they could not question a machine.
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This will be a rental car. They are in for a huge bill from the rental company as not a chance this is covered under their terms.
Over 4 hours recovery loads of damage. Easily £8k bill headed their way
I hope they get ripped by the rental company for 1. Driving a hire car in a place they shouldn’t and 2. Abandoning the car in the middle of nowhere to continue travel plans.
How damn selfish to just leave the car there for everyone local to deal with.
Of course it was Juke, and of course it was a yank haha.
I was once navigating for a friend in London (he was driving 4 of us into town for an after work thing). I accidentally had my phone on walking directions instead of driving so when we got into the city it started giving directions like turning into a pedestrian only gate into green park.
My friend and I, not being FUCKING IDIOTS, simply went “that doesn’t seem right” and carried on driving in a safe and appropriate manner while I corrected the satnav (and realised the mistake).
I’ve never understood the drive down a stairs/into a river/off a cliff brigade… are they driving purely by looking at the Satnav without using the windows at all? Do they see the water and just go “satnav says drive into the lake so I’ll drive into the lake”… are they just fucking drunk?
No need for a sat nav to get to Tenby, just go to oneby, twoby, threeby, fourby etc.
And as for how you get two whales in a mini, the answer is “over the Severn bridge.”
I’m here all week
> Tourists ~~using sat-nav~~ who ignored every sign and used no common sense jam car in narrow Tenby footpath
FTFY.
> “[The walls were] touching on both sides of the car,” he said. “They got it wedged and they just put more power on.
I hope they got a massive bill for this, both for the damage to the car and for the time and effort that it cost to deal with their idiocy.
It says – They were talking about cutting up the car where it was and scrapping it.
Trying to work out the exact location, assume that’s the lifeboat station in the background they’ve somehow made it about 150m along a footpath. Surely sat nav can’t be blamed as Google Maps and OpenStreetMap don’t show it as a road at that point.
In the more rural parts of the UK I often swear at the satnav woman. For some reason Google thinks that cart tracks are suitable for a big panel van. Although I do encourage her with my love of “not suitable for HGVs” and single track roads. Sadly common sense is not as common as it once was.
Fucking Yanks assuming everywhere is driveable. Idiocy of the highest order.
For context [here](https://maps.app.goo.gl/1JuiSqTi1uatSwSE9) is how the path develops. Dear God. Even if that was a legitimate road I’d most definitely not be taking it.
It’s like that scene from The Office US when Michael drives into the lake because the sat-nav told him to. You are free to use your own judgement with a sat-nav, however it seems these tourists might have done just that, only they lacked any common sense and felt they could not question a machine.