Car Navigator Lands Motorists in River
A German couple out for a Christmas drive near Berlin ended up in a river, apparently because their luxury car’s navigation system forgot to mention that they had to wait for a ferry. The 57-year-old driver and his passenger were not injured, police said. The couple were out driving when they came to a ferry crossing at the Havel River in Caputh, southwest of Berlin. That information, however, was never stored in their car’s navigation system. The driver kept going straight in the dark, expecting a bridge, and ended up in the water.
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