| HIGH-TECH GPS LEADS DRIVER DOWN LONELY CALHOUN PATH - Stuck On The Trail, Help Is Summoned
By Bob Weaver (10/29/2020)
GPS electronic site location has been commonplace across most of America for the last couple decades, but continues to fail users in rural West Virginia, including Calhoun.
Devices continue to fail in the backwoods, apparently for the lack of cell service (towers), not enough to triangulate locations.
Unfortunately, truck drivers or even citizens in cars have not learned the backwoods lesson, with dozens of cases where they get lost, hung-up, stranded or over the hill.
It would seem that fixation to electronic screens quickly overcomes common sense, following rural GPS.
Thursday morning a large tractor-trailer truck delivering to Dollar General followed the screen directions, turning off Rt. 16 at Big Springs, traveling down Yellow Creek Road and turning left on Spring Fork, a narrow single path of a road connected to Broomstick.
The driver continued up the back road about two miles, nearly falling in deep creek beds, scraping trees and nearly getting stuck in turns - until the truck and driver could go no further on the path, taking the side our of the trailer, tipping and stalling.
A recovery team was called to the area and was still on-scene until Thursday evening, figuring out an operations plan.
The team leader said this was the third time his company had been in the hollow.
Locals loafing at the scene said they were waiting to see it there was any spillage of toilet paper, much like locals trying to get Vodka with a $250,000 spill on the Gip-Servia road a few years, another memorable GPS crash.
See  FLASHBACK 2012: $250,000 VODKA CRASH ON SERVIA-NICUT ROAD - GPS Misguides Driver
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