Taxi driver's sat nav gaffe

A taxi driver drove two teenage girls 85 miles in the wrong direction after keying the wrong name into his sat nav.

The girls asked the cabbie to take them from Bournemouth to Lymington, Hampshire - but ended up in Limington, Somerset, reports the Dorset Echo.

The East European taxi driver asked them to write down the address of the caravan park, then entered what they had written, 'Limington', on his car's satellite navigation system.

"He put it into his satnav and away he went. He thought he was doing the right thing," said United Taxis' manager Barry Gill. After a 90-minute taxi ride he dropped the girls at a caravan park in Yeovil - three miles from Limington - and drove off after charging them an £80 fare.

The girls, from Plymouth, Devon, only realised they were in the wrong place after asking bemused locals where they could find their New Forest campsite.