An Amazon delivery van had to be recovered after its driver followed a GPS route onto “extremely dangerous” mudflats.
English coastguards received a call on Sunday morning about the incident the previous evening, according to a Facebook post by HM Coastguard Southend.
They said the van had driven onto The Broomway, a six-mile path dating back 600 years that is not intended for vehicles.
The driver had been “following a GPS route” trying to reach Foulness Island, off the east coast of the county of Essex, according to the coastguard Facebook post.
Foulness Island is owned by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)…