Lorry drivers from across Europe, heading for the Bradley Hall trading estate near Standish, are being led down a dead end by their various Sat Nav systems, which plan a correct route but fail to take into account a low bridge that blocks the way.

At least six lorries a day are being wrongly guided down Bradley Lane – as our test route mapping the most direct journey from Aspull, just off the M61, to the trading estate shows – forcing drivers to reverse and turn in Hutton Street, a small cul-de-sac.

Bradley Lane residents Brian Steer and partner Lynn Swift watched as their front wall was demolished by a Polish trucker as he tried to make just such a turn last week.

Brian, 48, said: "It has just started getting worse and worse because more and more drivers are using Sat Nav.

"Before people would give them proper directions and the proper route in but now people don't ask, they'll just put the address into their Sat Nav."

Although there have been several near misses this is the first time that a lorry driver has caused any damage in the street.
Lynn, whose home is on the corner of Bradley Lane and Hutton Street, said: "He was very shaken up, it was a shame really because it's not the worst thing can happen to you.

"But it has really become a difficulty now because you find yourself watching out for lorries all the time just in case they do knock your wall down.
"The real worry is that next time somebody could be injured."

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