GPS devices have been known to make mistakes sometimes but a mistake led a woman who relied on technology a bit too much to wind up driving 900 miles when she was just trying to pick up a friend at a train station 38 miles away.
Sabine Moreau, 67, was trying to drive to Brussels from her Solre-sur-Sombre home to pick up her friend but a broken GPS led her to take a wrong turn. She drove to Zagreb, Croatia, nearly 900 miles away from her home.
Moreau never thought to question where her TomTom GPS was leading her even though she crossed five borders, filled her tank multiple times and encountered traffic signs in multiple languages. After two days of driving, she finally realized that she was no longer in Belgium.
"I saw all kinds of traffic signs. First in French, then in German - Cologne, Aachen, Frankfurt," she told a Belgian news website, according to the Daily Mail. "But I didn't ask myself any questions. I was just distracted, so I kept my foot down."
The woman likely went through France, Germany, Austria and Slovenia before she hit Croatia.
After making the 900 mile trip to Croatia, she had to make the entire trip back to her home in Solre-sur-Sambre.
The woman's son notified police when his mother didn't return. They searched her house and were going to begin a manhunt until she called and said she was Croatia.
"I didn't really notice anything was wrong until I suddenly arrived in Zagreb and realised that I was no longer in Belgium," she told police.Moreau claims that she was so preoccupied that she simply didn't notice where she was. She even pulled over to take a nap at one point during her journey.
"I was a bit absent-minded as I had a few things to think about, I suppose," she said, according to the Daily Mail.
Moreau made it home 60 hours after she left.
Police were shocked to hear the story which was previously unheard of.
"These GPS systems cause problems from time to time but nothing like this. But this woman has done nothing wrong and we just have to believe her," a Belgian police spokesman said.
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