{"id":4253,"date":"2011-12-22T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:35:52","slug":"sat-nav-leads-truck-driver-into-a-115000-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2011\/12\/sat-nav-leads-truck-driver-into-a-115000-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat Nav&#8217;s  \u00a3115,000 mistake!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Trusting-a-Sat-Nav.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4254\" title=\"Trusting a Sat Nav\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Trusting-a-Sat-Nav-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With more and more of us becoming dependant on the Satnav, it is not surprising that we probably all follow its instructions to arrive at your destination. However when a Foreign Truck Driver followed his Satnav instructions, it cost \u00a3115,000!!<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring roadside warning signs, Daniel Gyongyosi turned his 30-ton lorry into this narrow lane, jack-knifing on the tight corner before becoming stuck between Grade I-listed buildings.<\/p>\n<p>As Gyongyosi tried to manoeuvre his rig free, one of the lorry&#8217;s tyres exploded causing even more damage. Daniel Gyongyosi, 47, was delivering crates of olive oil to a Waitrose supermarket in Colchester, Essex, when he took the wrong turn in his 30-ton vehicle<\/p>\n<p>The bill for his error was made up of:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a380,000 of spilled olive oil,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a315,000 damage to a 17th century house<\/p>\n<p>\u00a320,000 for writing-off his trailer<\/p>\n<p>\u00a3115,000 TOTAL<\/p>\n<p>Grit normally used to tackle ice and snow during winter had to be laid on the road which was left slippery by hundreds of litres of leaking olive oil.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically the Hungarian truck driver was let off with a fine of just \u00a340!!<\/p>\n<p>So the next time, you use your sat nav, please do not ignore the Road Signs!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more and more of us becoming dependant on the Satnav, it is not surprising that we probably all follow its instructions to arrive at your destination. However when a Foreign Truck Driver followed his Satnav instructions, it cost \u00a3115,000!! Ignoring roadside warning signs, Daniel Gyongyosi turned his 30-ton lorry into this narrow lane, jack-knifing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[201],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}