An entertaining report from the Daily Mail:
One wrong turning became a 24-hour rescue mission after a hapless Polish lorry driver followed his sat-nav into a dead end.
He had ignored signs warning that the road was not suitable for HGVs and got the 40ft wagon stuck on a tight bend.
A team of around ten workers from a specialist recovery team then spent more than 15 hours digging out earth from the side of the road to ease it free.
Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary Norman Baker has tabled an Early Day Motion calling for urgent action to protect communities from poor sat-nav routing.
The Parliamentary motion calls for the Government to regulate sat-navs to ensure that they take into account the height, width and length of the vehicle before selecting a route. If the Government adopts the idea, this could mean an end to sat-navs mistakenly directing lorries down unsuitable roads.
You can help by asking your MP to sign Norman Baker’s motion, Early Day Motion 1252 ‘Satellite Navigation Devices’, to show his or her support for the campaign.
Villagers in Carmarthenshire say they fear restoration work is being damaged by drivers using satellite navigation.
A Czech lorry driver spent three nights in his cab after his satellite navigation system directed him down a narrow country lane.
The driver, 45, was on his way to pick up a consignment of televisions from a depot in Devon when his 40-tonne articulated lorry became wedged on a sharp bend near Ivybridge. Residents were forced to make lengthy diversions as it was impossible to get past the 50ft (15m) long, 8ft wide lorry.
The driver of an articulated lorry was stuck for more than three hours on a tight bend in Carmarthenshire, after taking directions from his sat nav.
SAT NAV technology designed to make life easier for drivers is making life harder for rural people.
People living in towns and villages near Winchester are complaining that satellite navigation systems are misdirecting drivers onto unsuitable roads.
There are a growing number of reports of lorries getting stuck on tight corners and narrow country lanes.
One village in the Meon Valley, Exton has erected a sign asking drivers to turn off their satnav systems.
Sat navs tell drivers the quickest route but many systems do not take into account the suitability of the local roads.
Now Alresford town councillor Mark Luckham is launching a campaign to minimise the problem.
FED-UP residents are calling for a sign allowing lorries down their narrow lane to be changed after a truck got stuck four times causing thousands of pounds damage to their walls.
See the Daily Mail’s coverage of the problems in Luddenden >>
It may be the quickest route according to your in-car guide, but increasingly the technology is sending drivers on rat runs through obscure rural byways – and the locals aren’t happy, report Dipesh Gadher and Luke David of The Sunday Times