It looked as if the caravan had turned the vehicle, glad we have a Hyland hitch... Treg hitches are good too but they dont seem to use 'em on caravans.
Esmeralda said
12:21 AM Oct 17, 2012
Maybe they were going a bit too fast?
rockylizard said
02:50 AM Oct 17, 2012
Gday...
Often a rollover occurs when the left wheels of the van (and maybe the tug as well) drop off the edge and into the dirt, then a bit of a sway, too eager on the steering wheel (or brake) and a series of sways ends up flipping the whole rig. Happens real quick if you are not ready, or used to, handling it.
As they say - "it can happen to anyone"
Cheers - John
Santa said
07:04 PM Oct 17, 2012
rockylizard wrote:
Gday...
Often a rollover occurs when the left wheels of the van (and maybe the tug as well) drop off the edge and into the dirt, then a bit of a sway, too eager on the steering wheel (or brake) and a series of sways ends up flipping the whole rig. Happens real quick if you are not ready, or used to, handling it.
As they say - "it can happen to anyone"
Cheers - John
Your right John it can happen to anyone, sadly though it does seems to happen much more frequently to those among us who have little experience towing caravans.
Saw two new vehicle/caravan rollovers on our recent trip to Darwin.
neilnruth said
01:11 AM Oct 20, 2012
Something similar happened to us when we hired a caravan in Tasmania. We would have taken our own but couldn't afford our kids plus the caravan on the ferry! Anyway, 3 days before we finished our holiday, the caravan jack-knifed the car and rolled us both over on our side. The brakes on the van had failed (they'd been a problem the whole time we had it). The owner had the cheek to fix up the van and have it back on the road for hire within a few days! Hope he fixed the brakes. Have never hired a caravan since and took our our van the next time we went to Tassie. And yes, we all walked away with just a few scratches and a bit of glass in the head.
wendyv said
10:35 PM Oct 21, 2012
We had a Treg hitch on our caravan. They are regularly used on offroad type vans.
Did anyone see this story in the NT Times?
At least it was a half happy ending.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/10/12/314272_travel.html
Really gives you goose bumps doesn't it.
Maybe they were going a bit too fast?
Gday...
Often a rollover occurs when the left wheels of the van (and maybe the tug as well) drop off the edge and into the dirt, then a bit of a sway, too eager on the steering wheel (or brake) and a series of sways ends up flipping the whole rig. Happens real quick if you are not ready, or used to, handling it.
As they say - "it can happen to anyone"
Cheers - John
Your right John it can happen to anyone, sadly though it does seems to happen much more frequently to those among us who have little experience towing caravans.
Saw two new vehicle/caravan rollovers on our recent trip to Darwin.
We had a Treg hitch on our caravan. They are regularly used on offroad type vans.