A PARCELFORCE DRIVER followed his sat nav though it sent him along a canal towpath.

PostOfficeVanCanalAnd was stuck, Roger Fox reports.

The investigation that followed learned the Parcelforce driver 'followed a sat nav' though it took him off the road onto the Rochdale Canal towpath in the Chadderton Park area.

A crane needed

It then required a crane in a nearby field to hoist the van off the towpath and get it back on a road.

These days most people religiously follow sat nav instructions, and it seems even on to canal towpaths!