A woman has been seriously injured after a car and caravan rolled over on Indian Ocean Drive in Western Australia.
The accident happened yesterday afternoon near Knobby Head, to the north of  Leeman.
A St John Ambulance spokesman said the woman suffered a serious abdominal injury. Perth Now reports the woman was taken to Jurien Bay hospital where the RAC rescue chopper was to take her to Royal Perth Hospital.
A police spokeswoman said the other occupants in the car, including several children, were believed to have suffered minor injuries.
It is the latest in a spate of  caravan rollovers. Earlier yesterday,  a caravan went over on the Wide Bay Highway near Goomeri in Queensland. There were no injuries in that accident, or the one last week  in which a two-axle caravan rolled on the north bound lane of the Pacific Highway at Ballina in New South Wales.
Are these rollovers in someway to do with the weight distribution bars we are now having fitted?
Weight distribution hitches if anything, improve the rigs handling. There could be any number of factors from driver error to blown tyre. Unless the police release their findings, I doubt we will ever know the real cause.
No the problem is that don’t have enough experience in a large vehicle I’ve been driving for 45 YEARS but I drove heavy truck there should be a course to show how to drive
Inattention speed 110klh is not the the correct speed 85 to 95 is a speed that makes for greater control ,there should be a special license for all caravaners and a speed limit of 90k trucks 100k including anything towing a trailer then all others 110k
There is already a speed limit for towing stuff. It is 100kph max.
Agree with an endorsement on your license to be able to tow a van.
agree with licence endorsement to tow
Hmmnm… I would be interesting to see the percentage ratio of van roll over versus the percentage of Car or other vehicle roll over.
I am sure that the caravan issue is a very small percentage in a comparison exercise.
jphn
Roll over cars ans crashes are way ahead in numbers to caravans, I am 68 and tow a 21 ft caravan, if yoy are all hook up properly, you dont speed and aware then you are ok unles there are other circumstances involved, and sick of hearing about old people driving when most of the accidents are younger people.
Question: Are there more caravan rollovers or is the reporting of it that is becoming more prominent?
Personally I believe all persons wanting to tow a caravan should have more training in its operations before they set off.
Perhaps a legal requirement should be put in place whereby a ‘licence to tow’ is given for drivers of any caravan over two tonnes .
Increased knowledge ‘should’ reduce most risks. Any helpful responses are very welcome here. Gwynnie
I definitely agree that the percentage of caravan rollovers would be pretty low if a comparison were to be drawn on a single car vs car & caravan involved in rollovers. There have been many truck rollovers in recent times involving professional drivers. The question also has to be asked as to the cause and what conditions contributed to the incident. I have towed caravans for many years and have not yet seem a rollover however, I do know that on narrow roads particularly where there are many corners cars and trucks fail to acknowledge that a caravan needs more space. They cut the corner and leave minimal space for the car and caravan which often puts them in a position where they have little room to move and often nowhere to to.
Instead of flogging caravaners needlessly, examine the cause before making an issue of caravan rollovers.
it goes both ways with trucks and vans ,cars,bikes .try to look at the overall picture
The main problem is no common sense.
Do they still put baffles in the water tanks, ,as half a tank of water would easy get a caravan on a roll
Dianna miller
The sooner all states require a semi trailer license for caravan towing the better. We are constantly seeing hair raising near disasters involving caravans.
Truck drivers have a licence but doesn’t stop truck accidents.
More importantly for any drivers to continually improve their skills, and use common sense.
How many vanners have taken their rigs onto a quiet road, bitumen and dirt, and done panic stops from various speeds to see how their rig will handle.
Yes there are some caravanners out there that are inconsiderate to other traffic, but we have been on the road on and off with our caravan for 40 years and are often passed by other caravans when we travelling at 90kph so we think maybe some accidents are caused by inappropriate speed and/or inexperience
Pretty windy part of WA coast where it happened and also lots of wildlife and this is past the newer section of Indian Ocean Drive.At the end of the day apart from the poor ladies injury nobody died.
Don’t rule out caravan design as a cause.