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Point taken.

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At least the truck driver had control, hope no one was hurt.

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Bloody hell, I hope every one was ok two. Have just shown the wife the clip. It realy put's a shiver down one's spine !!!



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Ouch !! jawdrop.gif



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that car driver can't be a nomad, must be a weekender???? i bet the truck was doing 90 or 100

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Cripes.......just as well the truckie had the on board camera to show he wasn't responsible. hmm

 



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So did the caravan driver not allow for the suction from the road train? What could he have done to stop that happening?

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Applied the trailer brakes,
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neilnruth wrote:

So did the caravan driver not allow for the suction from the road train? Obviously What could he have done to stop that happening?

Gday...

It is a long straight good road and the roadtrain would have been sitting on around 90-100kph.

What could the driver have done to avoid this happening? It is quite simple ... simply sit back behind the truck and travel at around 90-100kph and enjoy the drive.

The van must have been travelling at or above 100kph so make the pass - add to that the draft of the roadtrain and it was an inevitable disaster waiting to happen once the van got beside the roadtrain.

If one does not put one's hand on the stove one will not get burnt. hmm

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The road trains took a bit of getting use to.  I could feel the rush of air as the truck approached, it shook and blew my small camper van around.  Sometimes it was safer to pull over until it passed.



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The person towing the van hit the brakes after the first swing, what followed was pretty well inevitable, at the final swing, just before rollover the driver is standing on the brakes, see brake light and skid marks.

If you get into a fishtail situation the worst thing you can do is touch the brakes, attempt to accelerate smoothly, perhaps at the speed he was overtaking he simply didn't have enough power left to do so.

As others have said, there was probably no need to pass, just drop back a bit and enjoy the scenery.

The truck driver was fortunate not to become involved.



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Very scary they may not have had the van loaded correctly also. Sitting back and enjoying the scenery would be the preferred option. In our case it would be the road train blowing us off as 85 is my cruising speed.

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Why do cars pull in so tight when passing trucks..?? I understand if there's no view of clear road a head..For safety..
The draft off the truck and pulling over so hard plus applying the brakes so hard didn't help..

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as others have said the Truck would have been doing between 90-100 on a straight but not wide road so in these situations we need to remember its also about the journey not just the destination and I am sure they were not very happy about their destination just hope they were not injured.

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The caravan had a problem before the overtaking, as Santa suggested. It started to sway as the van pulled in beside the truck cab. The driver hit the brakes at the caravan's first sway. Looks like an instinctive reaction by a nervous tower.. Grey bald or whatever.

I even think the speed wasn't that high, see how soon the the truck pulled up..



-- Edited by 03_troopy on Saturday 28th of June 2014 03:49:53 PM

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