There must be a lot of that sort of thing.
Unexpurgated it's a long story, but in short I once called the emergency services to a spot on a wide section of the Trent near Long Eaton. I was on a boat at the time. The incident was on the south bank by a field, and a Sea Scouts hut IIRC, no road there that I could see.
I offered the operator a Lat/Long fix but she said they couldn't work with that, only a post code or a grid reference that I couldn't provide as I didn't have an OS map of the area. I got the bins out and identified a pub near the opposite bank, reminding her that the incident was on the other side of the river. Needless to say the fire engines turned up on the wrong side. I ended up ferrying two loads of firemen across the river and back.
A few years earlier, somebody here in west Herts called an ambulance, and one went to a village of the same name in Warwickshire instead.
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Aside from the Big Brother implications, the OnStar system does have some appeal as this sort of thing could be reduced.
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Mainly for those who know Surrey. Silent pool is ? - Manatee
