Brits watch on as tourist's 'satnav blunder' gets motorhome stuck on tight road
A tourist has left a beautiful Cornish village red in the face after getting their motorhome stuck.
Locals reacted with astonishment and mirth after the motorhome driver managed to wedge the vehicle down a narrow, residential road in a north Cornwall fishing town. The drama took place in Padstow late on Monday afternoon, with onlookers suggesting it was due to a "satnav blunder".
The incident could well be the final silly season fail as Cornwall's roads quieten down after a summer of mishaps, including the large numbers of cars which ended up stuck on beaches, with one even washed into the sea, Cornwall Live reported.
The Padstow blunder was caught on camera and showed the wide vehicle wedged between buildings in a road clearly not suitable. One witness, a local delivery driver, saw the drama unfold. He said: "Late this afternoon a German tourist got his hired motorhome stuck in one of the narrow lanes in Padstow.
Locals say that the driver appeared "in bits" after getting stuck (Cornwall Live/BPM MEDIA)"Quite how he got as far as he did is astonishing, why he kept going is a mystery. This is a classic 'user error' satnav blunder. The poor chap and his missus were in bits, it was impossible not to feel sorry for them, however, they will most certainly remember this visit to Cornwall for a very long time."
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Fortunately the motorhome was released, although not without incident. The delivery driver added: "After getting stuck they reversed up to the top of the lane and then, incredibly turned it around and tried to drive down to the Golden Lion. By this time the chap had burnt out the clutch, you could smell it from yards away. Oh dear."
In August locals in another picturesque Cornish village found the funny side in what appeared to be a tourist parking their car in a river. The Mini driver was called out for parking in a river just two weeks after locals slammed 'idiot' tourists for deciding to park on the sand. Freyja Pither, from St Dominick, Cornwall, was rowing down the Calstock River when she spotted something out of the blue.
It seems that a holidaymaker decided to visit the village and park in a peculiar spot in Calstock. "I don't know the back story for sure but there is a small private slipway in that area which probably had something to do with it," the 17-year-old explained.
"When it was spotted, the windscreen wipers were ironically still going. I'd imagine though it was an emmet, Cornish slang for tourist, because us locals know the river! It was amusing to say the least. I can't say anyone was surprised as we have had multiple cars stuck on beaches or swamped. We usually get a few but this year was bad, including three Audis at once stuck on the beach at Newquay."
Earlier this month Connor Duffy, 33, a chef from Newquay, Cornwall, was left baffled when he spotted the vehicles drive onto Towan Beach. Thousands of tourists visit the area every year, but locals aren’t always best pleased with how they treat their town.
Despite there being plenty of parking spots and car parks around Newquay, the trio decided to drive their cars right onto the beach – and soon needed assistance.
"They all drove down together... didn’t look like they knew each other as they were all separate cars," Connor, from Newquay, explained. "They then had to get two RNLI trucks to leave their posts of lifeguarding to come and sort them out. They had to be pulled out by locals as no tractors could be called in.
"Then they had to clear the ramp as they each took turns at speeding up the beach and onto the ramp without getting stuck again. Lifeguards tried to sort it as quickly as possible, and did so." Connor said a crowd soon gathered and cheered when the cars were finally removed from the deep sand and taken up the ramp.
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