An idiot driver turns around as traffic approaches at 50mph Pic: europics.at

SAT NAVS are going to kill people because idiot drivers follow their instructions ‘blindly’, police chiefs have warned.  

Dozens of motorists have been caught on CCTV turning around their vehicles in high-speed tunnels  despite the threat of oncoming traffic –  ”because their sat navs told them to”

And now furious Swiss cops have spoken out about the perils of the satellite navigation systems.

They have published traffic images from the notorious Gotthard tunnel to illustrate how crazed drivers make u-turns as traffic approaches at more than 50 mph.

Damian Meier, head of traffic police in the Swiss province of Uri, said: “This is not an isolated case. More and more drivers are asked by their sat navs to take a u-turn in the Gotthard tunnel.”

He added: “The majority of drivers taking a u-turn in the tunnel are from abroad.”

Meier told the Austrian Times the sat navs often ‘revise’ the route after entering the underpass and advise drivers to turn around and take a local bypass instead.

The office worker was so desperate to avoid paying he clung on to the back of the bus Pic: Europics.at

A CASH-STRAPPED commuter has been caught clinging to the back of a coach – to save a 1p fare.

Stunned motorists watched Deng Chung, 33, swinging from the back of the bus as he sped through Dongwan, southern China, for more than 30 minutes before hopping off outside his office.

Now police are quizzing passengers and other drivers so they can charge the reckless IT worker with endangering public safety.

“I was following him for a while and we got up to 40 miles per hour,” said motorist Tian Yang, who took this picture.

But baffled bus bosses say he saved himself just a penny with his stunt.

“It’s not worth risking your life over that sort of money.

“If he was really short we’d let him on for nothing ,” a spokesman for the Great Wall Bus Company told the Austrian Times.