A minicab passenger who wanted to travel from Brixton to Croydon was taken on a 140-mile detour after he mistakenly typed Bristol as his destination before falling asleep.
The rider, Aaron Wray, was charged almost £470 for his Uber journey after he nodded off in the back seat.
He was trying to travel the two and a half –mile distance from Tulse Hill to Croydon in the early hours of Sunday morning.
He went from brixton to croydon via Bristol 😂 pic.twitter.com/fUX3CVfWX0
— GK (@gracekelly_97) February 26, 2017
But shortly after 3am, according to messages posted on Twitter, Aaron found himself on a five-hour detour to an address in Bristol.
Mr Wray told The Sun: “I got home at about 8am or 9am. It was all my money for a month gone. I was furious.”
When he woke up the Uber driver offered to take him back to the capital, changing his destination to Croydon, a spokesman for the minicab giant said.
The overall journey cost the man £467.52. He gave his driver, named Abdi, a one-star rating for his journey.
Text messages between Aaron and a friend and the map of the journey has been shared on Twitter more than 7,000 times.
Uber has offered the man a refund for his journey.
A spokesman for the cab company said: “This was clearly an unfortunate mistake so as a gesture of goodwill we would like to offer the rider a refund.”
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