A driver has died after being hit in the head by an object from a caravan travelling in the other direction.
Police say the 49-year-old man from Canberra was driving east along Burley Griffin Way at Galong, near Yass, just before 6:30pm on Sunday when an item from the passing caravan came loose.
It smashed through the windscreen and struck him in the head.
BarneyBDB said
01:42 PM Dec 9, 2024
Solar panel???
dorian said
01:53 PM Dec 9, 2024
BarneyBDB wrote:
Solar panel???
I can't see how it could be a panel if no passengers were injured.
His passengers, a 48-year-old woman and two teenage girls, were not injured, but taken to Canberra Hospital and treated for shock.
DMaxer said
03:13 PM Dec 9, 2024
My first thoughts were that it may have been a solar panel or something off the awning. Could have been something off the back that hit the road and bounced into the oncoming car.
A few months back I was behind a van when the obligatory bikes that nobody rides came adrift. They bounced several times then flew off to the side of the road. Luckily no one was coming in the opposite direction at the time. I wonder if that clown ever noticed they were missing.
Aussie1 said
10:47 PM Dec 9, 2024
Well, isn't this turning out to be a good guessing game. Spare wheel from rear of caravan hasn't been mentioned yet !
By the way, is there a prize for whoever guesses correctley? Spare me.
BarneyBDB said
09:51 AM Dec 10, 2024
If the news reported facts the guessing games may not be needed??
Aussie1 said
10:45 AM Dec 10, 2024
BarneyBDB wrote:
If the news reported facts the guessing games may not be needed??
News reporting the facts, you have to be joking but keep the guessing game going
dorian said
12:02 PM Dec 10, 2024
Aussie1 wrote:
BarneyBDB wrote:
If the news reported facts the guessing games may not be needed??
News reporting the facts, you have to be joking but keep the guessing game going
You must be thinking of "news.com". Switch to the ABC instead.
In any case, the media can only report what the police are willing to announce:
Yeah right, switch to the "miss information" ABC. but thank for giving me a huge laugh. Will share that one with Heston Russell.
Now, please focus on your next guess
The reporter from ABC who wrote this article reached out to me on another forum, to do a follow up of what caravanners do to keep items on their caravans, - how the items are fixed to vans. I reckon that is pretty good of the journo to do a follow up. I declined but pointed him to others on the forum, as I only have campertrailer now.
Aussie1 said
08:36 PM Dec 11, 2024
Bicyclecamper wrote:
Aussie1 wrote:
dorian wrote:
Aussie1 wrote:
BarneyBDB wrote:
If the news reported facts the guessing games may not be needed??
News reporting the facts, you have to be joking but keep the guessing game going
You must be thinking of "news.com". Switch to the ABC instead.
In any case, the media can only report what the police are willing to announce:
Yeah right, switch to the "miss information" ABC. but thank for giving me a huge laugh. Will share that one with Heston Russell.
Now, please focus on your next guess
The reporter from ABC who wrote this article reached out to me on another forum, to do a follow up of what caravanners do to keep items on their caravans, - how the items are fixed to vans. I reckon that is pretty good of the journo to do a follow up. I declined but pointed him to others on the forum, as I only have campertrailer now.
Hope you didn't point him to me. . He would probably follow the ABC line of miss reporting or simply changing to suit their confirmed "lefty' agenda
Bicyclecamper said
10:52 PM Dec 11, 2024
I didn't personally name anyone, I just told him to reach out to other members that are on the thread. Why I think he came to me was, in my post, I stated that I religiously go over my setup every day before I drive and I do, to make sure that everything is secure. I think that is why he reached out to me. EDIT: the article was not about being from the left or right, and I am sick and tired of seeing this political comment made everytime someone makes a comment different to their beliefs or even when it is a newspaper or Tv channel reporting, and I am sick of seeing it on here. It is very childish. STOP doing it! This thread was not about politics, it is about a caravan accident. Their is no need to bring politics into it.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 11th of December 2024 10:59:13 PM
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 11th of December 2024 11:06:45 PM
Aussie1 said
11:26 PM Dec 11, 2024
Bicyclecamper wrote:
I didn't personally name anyone, I just told him to reach out to other members that are on the thread. Why I think he came to me was, in my post, I stated that I religiously go over my setup every day before I drive and I do, to make sure that everything is secure. I think that is why he reached out to me. EDIT: the article was not about being from the left or right, and I am sick and tired of seeing this political comment made everytime someone makes a comment different to their beliefs or even when it is a newspaper or Tv channel reporting, and I am sick of seeing it on here. It is very childish. STOP doing it! This thread was not about politics, it is about a caravan accident. Their is no need to bring politics into it.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 11th of December 2024 10:59:13 PM
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 11th of December 2024 11:06:45 PM
No politics, just stating MY thoughts on the Woke infested ABC.
Cheers Cobber.
DMaxer said
07:23 AM Dec 12, 2024
No, it is not just your thoughts, more like your raison dętre, your obsession.
Magnarc said
07:59 AM Dec 12, 2024
DMaxer wrote:
No, it is not just your thoughts, more like your raison dętre, your obsession.
For once DMaxer I agree with your post.The constant "bashing" of the ABC is not warranted. They provide an alternative to the drivel on other stations. So, IF they are left leaning, doesn't that provide some balance? Before someone points the finger at me, I am neither left or right.
PS Bicycle Camper, your post was right on the knocker, well said.
bristte said
09:37 AM Dec 12, 2024
I also agree that the ABC bashing that commonly occurs here is unwarranted. The fact that you don't agree with everything that's written there doesn't make it biased.
In attempt to get this thread back on topic, reports of this accident caught my attention for a couple of reasons. (i) I travel that road from time to time and in fact had towed my van up and down it only a week or two beforehand. It's always a bit unnerving when something like this happens just after you've been somewhere. (E.g. I had stayed in the same area of that Hughenden caravan park about a week before that car and van hijacking a few months ago, perhaps I'm leading a charmed life.) (ii) Like others, I'd like to know what came off the van, because it may be something that one wouldn't expect. It's all very well to say check regularly, but if there's something that's particularly risky, I'd like to know what it is. I have my own suspicions, but I'm not going to speculate.
-- Edited by bristte on Thursday 12th of December 2024 09:59:17 AM
rmoor said
09:52 AM Dec 12, 2024
"The constant "bashing" of the ABC is not warranted."
I don't know about that !!!!
The morning ABC news was my first port of call every morning.
Not now, sacked, there have been recent resignations and changes and the morning news team they have now is sheer awful.
The bloke that replaced Michael is terrible and a few of the others are miserable presenters.
The whole format needs a complete revamp. I have avoided switching it on at all in the last few days.
Throw in the odd biased news items they like to push, the ABC morning news has become impossible watching.
It is almost as painful as listening to Justin Langer on the cricket on TV. A mate tells me David Warner over on Fox is a quick move to the mute button as well.
On the van issue, I have very few items on the outside can fall off the old Dragon Wagon. It is paramount that van owners should do the triple check thing, like I do with the van and trailer connections.
After a day watching the NSW Women's Open qualifying round live in the bush this week, when driving home I sat at traffic lights behind what was obviously a fencing contractors truck.
I found myself measuring with my eyes the gauge of the mesh on the back to try and figure out if one of about 20 star posts could make it through the wire gap!!!!!
They could definitely have been stored better, if the truck rolled over or something there would be two dozen spears going in all directions.
On the ladies golf, the qualifying round winner, Kelsey Bennett is a lovely polite young lady and is soon to head off to Morocco to try and gain a European card. For those sports lovers on this thread out there, keep an eye on this lovely young lady, she is a bottler. Hope she makes it on the big stage, her course manners are also impeccable.
Something on here a few of us oldies on here could learn from
Greg 1 said
04:54 PM Dec 12, 2024
With regards things flying off vans, we lost our door off our then quite new van, about 3ks east of Mundrabilla on the Eyre Hwy.
It was due to the cheap plastic hardware that they fit on doors these days, failing and allowing the door to fly open and part company with the van.
I often have thought that it was a good job no other motorist was in the vicinity when it occurred.
I have since machined the offending parts out of billet aluminium and fitted over centre catches to the outside of the door to prevent it happening again.
With regards the news media, they are all guilty of both getting it wrong or political bias.
The ABC was taken to task very recently for deliberately embellishing a story of saying and playing several gunshots being fired when in fact there was only one.
Reporters are all the same.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Aussie1 said
06:01 PM Dec 12, 2024
DMaxer wrote:
No, it is not just your thoughts, more like your raison dętre, your obsession.
My apologies for my tardiness in responding to your post above.
Unfortunately, I was otherwise engaged in playing a few games of tennis with some like minded friends.
Anyhow, I'm back now, and as they say on the ABC "better late than never."
As for financial compensation, for my late response (which appears to be the norm these days for one not doing the job they are paid to do) I have asked the ABC if they could oblige, but their response was, "sorry, we used a large portion of our Taxpayers budget on paying out Heston Russell for our incorrect/false information case." Being of the "legal fraternity", I am sure you are all over the details on that.
Now, re your post, I have entered the contents in my little book of Useless Information.
So thank you, and I shall take this opportunity to wish you a a very Merry/safe Christmas.
Cheers
Are We Lost said
07:06 PM Dec 12, 2024
Aussie1 wrote:
"sorry, we used a large portion of our Taxpayers budget on paying out Heston Russell for our incorrect/false information case."
Plain Truth said
07:35 PM Dec 12, 2024
Yes it was $390,000,
Aussie1 said
09:58 PM Dec 12, 2024
Plain Truth wrote:
Yes it was $390,000,
Yep, isn't that an absolute disgrace. Shame on you ABC and your supporters.
-- Edited by Aussie1 on Thursday 12th of December 2024 10:00:12 PM
dorian said
08:32 AM Dec 13, 2024
It appears that the Poms know more about the accident than the Aussies:
What ever it was, it was small, because his wife was not hurt, - maybe a bolt or nut, a small vent, something small enough to get him in the forehead , the sooner they put out what it was the sooner vanners can check their's so it doesn't happen again.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Friday 13th of December 2024 11:43:35 AM
Are We Lost said
12:03 PM Dec 13, 2024
Bicyclecamper wrote:
What ever it was, it was small, because his wife was not hurt,
It is not an oversight on the part of the police. I think there is a very good reason why they have not stated what the item may have been. I am certain it is all being thoroughly investigated.
Watch what happens.
-- Edited by DMaxer on Friday 13th of December 2024 02:45:43 PM
Are We Lost said
12:43 PM Dec 13, 2024
For once I agree wih DMaxer.
Aussie1 said
03:33 PM Dec 13, 2024
Yes, me to. Good post DMaxer.
Much better than the old guessing game.
Driver dies in caravan accident on Burley Griffin Way near Yass:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/driver-dies-caravan-burley-griffin-way-galong-near-yass/104700576
A driver has died after being hit in the head by an object from a caravan travelling in the other direction.
Police say the 49-year-old man from Canberra was driving east along Burley Griffin Way at Galong, near Yass, just before 6:30pm on Sunday when an item from the passing caravan came loose.
It smashed through the windscreen and struck him in the head.
I can't see how it could be a panel if no passengers were injured.
His passengers, a 48-year-old woman and two teenage girls, were not injured, but taken to Canberra Hospital and treated for shock.
My first thoughts were that it may have been a solar panel or something off the awning. Could have been something off the back that hit the road and bounced into the oncoming car.
A few months back I was behind a van when the obligatory bikes that nobody rides came adrift. They bounced several times then flew off to the side of the road. Luckily no one was coming in the opposite direction at the time. I wonder if that clown ever noticed they were missing.
By the way, is there a prize for whoever guesses correctley? Spare me.
News reporting the facts, you have to be joking
but keep the guessing game going 
You must be thinking of "news.com". Switch to the ABC instead.
In any case, the media can only report what the police are willing to announce:
https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGMTE1NjQ2Lmh0bWwmYWxsPTE%3D
That's pretty much what the ABC reported.
Yeah right, switch to the "miss information" ABC.
but thank for giving me a huge laugh. 
Will share that one with Heston Russell.
Now, please focus on your next guess
I can understand how broken you feel since Alan left SKY, Aussie 1, but you have to let go and move on.
or perhaps it was from the ABC's joke book, big edition is that !
Perhaps give it another shot
-- Edited by Aussie1 on Tuesday 10th of December 2024 02:50:09 PM
The reporter from ABC who wrote this article reached out to me on another forum, to do a follow up of what caravanners do to keep items on their caravans, - how the items are fixed to vans. I reckon that is pretty good of the journo to do a follow up. I declined but pointed him to others on the forum, as I only have campertrailer now.
Hope you didn't point him to me. . He would probably follow the ABC line of miss reporting or simply changing to suit their confirmed "lefty' agenda
I didn't personally name anyone, I just told him to reach out to other members that are on the thread. Why I think he came to me was, in my post, I stated that I religiously go over my setup every day before I drive and I do, to make sure that everything is secure. I think that is why he reached out to me. EDIT: the article was not about being from the left or right, and I am sick and tired of seeing this political comment made everytime someone makes a comment different to their beliefs or even when it is a newspaper or Tv channel reporting, and I am sick of seeing it on here. It is very childish. STOP doing it! This thread was not about politics, it is about a caravan accident. Their is no need to bring politics into it.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 11th of December 2024 10:59:13 PM
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Wednesday 11th of December 2024 11:06:45 PM
No politics, just stating MY thoughts on the Woke infested ABC.
Cheers Cobber.
For once DMaxer I agree with your post.The constant "bashing" of the ABC is not warranted. They provide an alternative to the drivel on other stations. So, IF they are left leaning, doesn't that provide some balance? Before someone points the finger at me, I am neither left or right.
PS Bicycle Camper, your post was right on the knocker, well said.
I also agree that the ABC bashing that commonly occurs here is unwarranted. The fact that you don't agree with everything that's written there doesn't make it biased.
In attempt to get this thread back on topic, reports of this accident caught my attention for a couple of reasons. (i) I travel that road from time to time and in fact had towed my van up and down it only a week or two beforehand. It's always a bit unnerving when something like this happens just after you've been somewhere. (E.g. I had stayed in the same area of that Hughenden caravan park about a week before that car and van hijacking a few months ago, perhaps I'm leading a charmed life.) (ii) Like others, I'd like to know what came off the van, because it may be something that one wouldn't expect. It's all very well to say check regularly, but if there's something that's particularly risky, I'd like to know what it is. I have my own suspicions, but I'm not going to speculate.
-- Edited by bristte on Thursday 12th of December 2024 09:59:17 AM
I don't know about that !!!!
The morning ABC news was my first port of call every morning.
Not now, sacked, there have been recent resignations and changes and the morning news team they have now is sheer awful.
The bloke that replaced Michael is terrible and a few of the others are miserable presenters.
The whole format needs a complete revamp. I have avoided switching it on at all in the last few days.
Throw in the odd biased news items they like to push, the ABC morning news has become impossible watching.
It is almost as painful as listening to Justin Langer on the cricket on TV. A mate tells me David Warner over on Fox is a quick move to the mute button as well.
On the van issue, I have very few items on the outside can fall off the old Dragon Wagon. It is paramount that van owners should do the triple check thing, like I do with the van and trailer connections.
After a day watching the NSW Women's Open qualifying round live in the bush this week, when driving home I sat at traffic lights behind what was obviously a fencing contractors truck.
I found myself measuring with my eyes the gauge of the mesh on the back to try and figure out if one of about 20 star posts could make it through the wire gap!!!!!
They could definitely have been stored better, if the truck rolled over or something there would be two dozen spears going in all directions.
On the ladies golf, the qualifying round winner, Kelsey Bennett is a lovely polite young lady and is soon to head off to Morocco to try and gain a European card. For those sports lovers on this thread out there, keep an eye on this lovely young lady, she is a bottler. Hope she makes it on the big stage, her course manners are also impeccable.
Something on here a few of us oldies on here could learn from
My apologies for my tardiness in responding to your post above.
Unfortunately, I was otherwise engaged in playing a few games of tennis with some like minded friends.
Anyhow, I'm back now, and as they say on the ABC "better late than never."
As for financial compensation, for my late response (which appears to be the norm these days for one not doing the job they are paid to do) I have asked the ABC if they could oblige, but their response was, "sorry, we used a large portion of our Taxpayers budget on paying out Heston Russell for our incorrect/false information case." Being of the "legal fraternity", I am sure you are all over the details on that.
Now, re your post, I have entered the contents in my little book of Useless Information.
So thank you, and I shall take this opportunity to wish you a a very Merry/safe Christmas.
Cheers
Yes it was $390,000,
Yep, isn't that an absolute disgrace. Shame on you ABC and your supporters.
-- Edited by Aussie1 on Thursday 12th of December 2024 10:00:12 PM
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14175547/Majharul-Talukder-freak-accident-canberra-university.html
What ever it was, it was small, because his wife was not hurt, - maybe a bolt or nut, a small vent, something small enough to get him in the forehead , the sooner they put out what it was the sooner vanners can check their's so it doesn't happen again.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Friday 13th of December 2024 11:43:35 AM
Not necessarily.
Random image from internet - driver unhurt.
It is not an oversight on the part of the police. I think there is a very good reason why they have not stated what the item may have been. I am certain it is all being thoroughly investigated.
Watch what happens.
-- Edited by DMaxer on Friday 13th of December 2024 02:45:43 PM
Much better than the old guessing game.