An Uber driver on his way home from dropping off a customer blindly following his sat nav through the countryside and became wedged in a crevice.
The driver had dropped off a customer in Marsden, a village near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, and was heavily relying on his navigation system upon turning around.
When he ordered his sat nav to take him back in the direction of the A62, the machine directed its driver through darkness and down a steep path across the Saddleworth Moor.
The path was narrow and littered with sharp rocks, but the persistent driver carried on until his car, a Mercedes Vito, ground to a halt.
He reportedly tried in vain to reverse, but eventually gave up and called friends for a lift home.
He made sure he walked to an accessible road, first.
Bemused locals surveying the scene the next day presumed the vehicle had been stolen then dumped by joyriders.
That was until the embarrassed Uber driver then returned and revealed the truth about what had happened.
Local Craig Hannah said it was “amazing” that the driver managed to get that far along the “rough and very steep” track.
“Apparently he had been working in the area late on Saturday night and was trying to return to base,” she said.
“A passenger did say he could drive down the lane even though there was a sign warning that it was unsuitable for vehicles.
“If you were local you would know the road is not passable but this guy was clearly out of town and didn’t know.”
Craig had heard the driver had become so stuck that he had not been able to get his door open.
The back bumper of the driver’s car had been ripped off, he said, with the only way to retrieve it, likely being dragging it back up the hill.
Craig said the driver seemed a “really nice guy” who had been left shell shocked by the experience.
A less sympathetic local said: ‘We heard the taxi driver was just blindly following his satnav and got stuck.
‘Some people just don’t learn from the old adage – the computer is not always right.’
The Uber driver is reportedly awaiting repair costs, after the vehicle was rescued by a tow truck on Monday.
