Ambulance blindly follows GPS across the U.K.
Members of a London ambulance crew on their way to a town on the outskirts of London ended up in Manchester after blindly following their GPS navigation system, the BBC News reports.
The London Ambulance employees were transferring a patient from a hospital in Ilford, a town northeast of London, to Brentwood, a town 12 miles farther.
Instead, the crew ended up driving all the way to Manchester, a city about 200 miles north of London. The crew members essentially drove across almost the entire country of England before realizing that they had driven too far, according to the report.
A spokesman for London Ambulance said that the navigation database led them off course, and that they did not realize their mistake until reaching the outskirts of Manchester.
The patient being transferred was unharmed, according to the report.
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