Published 10:21 IST, June 19th 2019

BIZARRE: Police catches woman drunk driving, her vehicle of choice was a toy truck

The 25-year-old Megan Holman will be charged with public intoxication.

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A South Carolina woman who police say was driving drunk will t be cited with a DUI because her vehicle of choice was a toy truck. News outlets quote police as saying that instead y charged 25-year-old Megan Holman with public intoxication.

y say y spotted her cruising down road in a Power Wheels electric toy truck after a caller reported a suspicious person on street. Officers say she was driving about a mile (1.5 kilometers) from her home in Walhalla when y stopped her.

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Earlier in a bizarre incident, a Pennsylvania woman drove right onto railway tracks as GPS navigated her on it. She said this after she veered off road and her car got stuck on train tracks.  City of Duquesne Police Department received a call at around 10 pm about a vehicle on railway tracks and posted about incident on Facebook sharing a picture of car.

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“ GPS told me to do it…This evening at approximately 10 PM, city of Duquesne Police Department was dispatch for a vehicle on railroad tracks at Grant Avenue and State Route 837. Arriving Officers learned from driver, a female from Sewickley, that her GPS advised her to go this way.  female was 100% sober and had medical conditions affecting her decision-making.  vehicle was towed from scene and driver was cited for careless driving", officers wrote on Facebook post. 

Read: " GPS Told Me To Do It", Says Woman Who Blindly Drove Her Car On Railway Tracks

Some trolled woman while ors supported her on Facebook, some said that GPS techlogy really can confuse best of us. "Common sense would say GPS was wrong anyone kws driving on tracks is wrong..." wrote one commenter. 

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(With inputs from ncies)

13:30 IST, June 15th 2019