For couple, car computer all wet
Associated Press
POTSDAM, Germany -- A German couple out for a Christmas drive near Berlin ended up in a river -- apparently because their luxury car's computer forgot to mention they had to wait for a ferry.
The 57-year-old driver and his passenger were not injured in the accident, police said yesterday.
The German couple were out driving Friday night when they came to a ferry crossing at the Havel River in Caputh, six miles from Berlin. That information, however, was never stored in the satellite-steered navigation system they were using.
The driver kept going straight in the dark, expecting a bridge, and ended up in the water.
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