In 100 metres, turn left, drive across a farmer’s field and park up in a water-filled ditch...
Mohammad Zafar, 35, wants to tell his sat nav, “GET LOST!” after he followed its directions and got stuck in a ditch in the Lake District in the dead of night.
Mohammad took a wrong turn as he drove from his home in Rochdale, Gtr Manchester, to a campsite near Windermere, but his Mini Countryman’s sat nav insisted he was on the right track.
He said: “It was pitch black and it started taking me on to a really narrow track, but I still thought it was fine because the sat nav was telling me to go that way.
“Then I noticed it was saying I was two hours away, but by that point I couldn’t turn round. I carried on and the car got stuck in a ditch, that’s when I started to panic.”
He had no phone signal to check his location, but called 112. He said: “Without my location there was nothing they could do.
“I started doing anything I could think of to find my location on my phone. I managed to find my latitude and longitude and got hold of my cousins to tell them.”
It was another three hours before they got to Mohammad early last Saturday. He later paid £750 to get towed back to a road.
He said: “I’d advise others to be vigilant using sat navs in rural areas.”
Simon Henrick, from the Green Flag breakdown firm, said: “Sat navs can literally send you down the wrong path."
