Woman Gives Ridiculous Reason for Driving on Train Tracks

By Fox News. . .Around 10 p.m. last Wednesday, the Duquesne Police Department responded to a call about “a vehicle on the railroad tracks” off State Route 837, the department wrote in a Facebook post.

Officers said a woman from Sewickley, roughly 15 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, had driven onto the tracks because “her GPS advised her to go this way.” (Read more from “Woman Gives Ridiculous Reason for Driving on Train Tracks” HERE)

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‘The GPS Told Me to Do It’: Woman Guided by GPS Drives onto Railroad Tracks, Police Say

By USA Today. Pennsylvania police say a woman who was following GPS directions veered off a road and onto railroad tracks, leaving her car stranded and resulting in a careless driving ticket.

The City of Duquesne Police Department posted about the incident to social media Wednesday, beginning the post “The GPS told me to do it…” The post includes a photo showing a disabled white sedan sitting on railroad tracks that run parallel to a multilane road.

The woman was “100% sober and had no medical conditions affecting her decision-making,” police say. . .

In the wake of Hurricane Florence, North Carolina officials warned that GPS apps were advising drivers to take routes that were flooded. “It is not safe now to trust (the travel apps) with your life,” the North Carolina Department of Transportation tweeted in September.

And in 2016, a driver who was following GPS directions turned too quickly and crashed — leaving the car suspended vertically on wires attached to a utility pole. No one was injured in that incident. (Read more from “‘The GPS Told Me to Do It’: Woman Guided by GPS Drives onto Railroad Tracks, Police Say” HERE)

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