News.blog: Ambulance blindly follows GPS for 200 miles

Members of a London ambulance crew on their way to a town on the outskirts of London ended up in Manchester after blindly following their GPS navigation system, BBC News reports.

The London Ambulance employees were transferring a patient from a hospital in Ilford, northeast of London, to Brentwood, 12 miles away.

Instead, the crew ended up driving all the way to Manchester, a distance of about 200 miles. A spokesman for London Ambulance said that the navigation database led them off course, and that they did not realise their mistake until reaching the outskirts of Manchester.

The patient being transferred was unharmed, according to the report.