Manchester is Dangerous - According to Navteq TMC

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Manchester is Dangerous - According to Navteq TMC

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Okay - let me explain.

As you must know, I have a CD70 Navi and Graphic Info Display from a Vectra-C fitted to my Cavalier.. :no :roll:

Long story, and I am now on regular metal health medication - ha ha :p

Anyway, I was driving home from Birkenhead on the Wirral to my home on the east side of Manchester.

Nothing out of the ordinary there, as I do this once or twice a week for work.

I was just about to leave the main motorway of the M56 to join the M60..
The road forks off to the left, becomes "The Sharston Link", and it then merges onto the M60 junction 3 (I thnk).

This link is approx two miles long -

So my sat nav has
dynamic guidance,
verbal direction prompts and
TMC warning messages..(like Tom Tom live traffic, but free :D )

I started to move to the left lane of the M56 at 4:40 pm tonight, ready to join the Sharston Link when "Navteq Nancy" tells me

"WARNING - DANGEROUS INCIDENT TWO MILES AHEAD!!" :shock:

Never heard that before - didn't even know that message existed. :scratch

What was the dangerous incident two miles ahead ??? -
Well, I don't know...
all I found two miles ahead was queuing traffic on the anti-clockwise M60

Strange.!! :scratch :scratch
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Thats near enough wythenshaw, its pretty accurate
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As such, two miles ahead is going away from Wythenshawe.

unless it is warning me of the risk of heading towards Stockport.

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Heading for Stockport? That's dangerous in itself!
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starnge mibby cause traffic moveing in wrong direction :scratch
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