Guy Pulled Over After Driving The Wrong Way On A Highway Because His GPS Said So


When your GPS tells you to do something, where do you draw the line as far as stupidity is concerned before you actually go and do it? Getting lost in a forest is one thing, but driving the wrong way up a major national highway is another thing entirely. Incidentally, that’s what this guy was just pulled over for.

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According to ABC, a New South Wales man was arrested after driving 20-kilometres the wrong way up the Hume Highway in Victoria at 4:30am.

When the man was pulled over by Police, he reportedly said the he thought the notoriously accident-ridden road was just a dual carriageway, and that his GPS unit told him to turn onto it.

How about we start putting common sense back on our roads? [ABC]


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