Here's your sign...!!!

Okay, the above title is becoming a hackneyed phrase, but in this age of ever-changing technology, which has some people verging on helplessness, I think this time it really applies!

I volunteer at a Nature Center which is at the end of a road.  There is a sharp right hand turn into the Center's parking lot.  The road visitors turn off, used to be a frontage road that emptied onto the highway, but has since been closed (for many years now) and has very obvious signing, barriers, etc.

There was an incidence whereas a "visitor" was watching their GPS and ran right into the sign and warning posts.  This picture was taken a few days later, after the damage had been repaired and the car bumper removed from the scene.  You can see where the dirt and gravel were churned up.

                               

Here is an expanded view.  You can see the road turning into the Center.

 

Now GPS units have been criticized for giving the wrong information occasionally because they are programmed incorrectly, or street names change, streets are added, and information is not updated, etc, etc.  But I do not believe this excuses a person for just watching/listening to the GPS and NOT watching so see that the road is indeed disappearing before their very eyes, AND run into things.  Did the driver think they were going to bend over and flatten as if they were on hinges?

 

Fortunately no one was hurt, but did they not SEE THEIR SIGNS???!!!