{"id":7698,"date":"2009-03-27T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2015-03-03T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:41:54","slug":"man-follows-sat-nav-to-cliff-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/man-follows-sat-nav-to-cliff-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Man follows sat nav to cliff edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nA car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath. Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning. Police have charged Mr Jones with driving without due care and attention.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relied on his sat nav for his job. He described Sunday&#8217;s incident, during a visit to friends in Todmorden, as &#8220;a nightmare&#8221;. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: &#8220;Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver was a 43-year-old man from Doncaster. He has been summonsed to court for driving without due care and attention.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The driver may face prosecution for careless driving. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/7964682.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath. Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road. Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1064,13,16,1130,31],"tags":[567,1127],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-map-news","category-gps-sat-nav-news","category-in-car-navigation","category-navigation-system","category-satellite-navigator","tag-man-follows-sat-nav-to-cliff-edge","tag-sat-nav","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}