There's one born every minute…

An Austrian woman has blamed her satellite navigation system after she drove into a lake.

Petra Lang, 27, used the device to point her in the direction of Lake Grundlsee, but when she tried to take a shortcut she was unsighted by undergrowth and ended up going straight into the water, according to the emergency services.

One rescuer said: "She insisted the satnav system was to blame.

"She said she typed in that she wanted to go to the lake - but got closer than she intended."

Petra escaped safely but firefighters had to pull the van out of the lake.