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TRENTON, Ontario, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A Canadian driver who followed her GPS system into a swamp had to be rescued from the roof of her flooded car, police said.
The incident happened Tuesday night in the Murray conservation area, northwest of Trenton, Ontario, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Wednesday.
Officers had difficulty finding the 25-year-old woman, said Chief John Whelan of the Quinte West Fire Department. She had used her cellphone to call 911 in the large, remote area.
The dispatcher kept her on the phone and had her honk her horn to guide rescuers, said Whelan. Firefighters reached her in all-terrain vehicles. Her car was stuck in waist-deep water.
She was checked by paramedics but was uninjured.
The woman had followed a narrow trail into the middle of the marsh when her car slid off the roadway and began filling with water shortly before 9:45 p.m., he said.
"It was pouring rain, it was foggy and miserable out and no streetlamps or anything out that way," Whelan said. "She was following that GPS and probably couldn't see 500 meters in front of her."
Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/10/06/GPS-misleads-Canadian-driver-into-swamp/UPI-27391286401404/
The incident happened Tuesday night in the Murray conservation area, northwest of Trenton, Ontario, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Wednesday.
Officers had difficulty finding the 25-year-old woman, said Chief John Whelan of the Quinte West Fire Department. She had used her cellphone to call 911 in the large, remote area.
The dispatcher kept her on the phone and had her honk her horn to guide rescuers, said Whelan. Firefighters reached her in all-terrain vehicles. Her car was stuck in waist-deep water.
She was checked by paramedics but was uninjured.
The woman had followed a narrow trail into the middle of the marsh when her car slid off the roadway and began filling with water shortly before 9:45 p.m., he said.
"It was pouring rain, it was foggy and miserable out and no streetlamps or anything out that way," Whelan said. "She was following that GPS and probably couldn't see 500 meters in front of her."
Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/10/06/GPS-misleads-Canadian-driver-into-swamp/UPI-27391286401404/
