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

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.

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