According to a research by DirectLine that specialises in selling insurance and other financial services over the phone and internet, SatNav causes 300,000 road accidents in UK each year.
The research which was done for the Daily Mirror shows that over half of drivers now use satellite navigation in vehicles which is causing increasing problems on the road because of wrong instruction it provides sometime.
More than 1.5 million drivers said they had driven badly because they were consulting SatNav, either by veering across lanes or making illegal manoeuvres. One tenth of the drivers said the system had caused them to make an illegal turn, double that number had lost track of traffic because they were distracted by it and one in four had been sent the wrong way down a street.
According to Maggie Game of Direct Line:
If a SatNav gives you an instruction that is likely to endanger other road users, ignore it. Motorists must realize that while they are a helpful navigation tool, they should not follow their instructions to the detriment of road safety.
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