A man has been taken to hospital after a caravan crash on Brand Highway near Jurien Bay in Western Australia.
The West Australian newspaper reports that a Pajero towing a caravan was travelling north yesterday morning, when it crashed about 40 kilometres south of Eneabba in Warradarge.
The cause of the accident is not clear but it is understood the Pajero and caravan flipped on their sides.
The male driver had serious cuts to his head and was taken to the Jurien Bay Hospital by St John Ambulance. His passenger was not hurt.
A witness told the West Australian that traffic banked up ‘for miles’ as a result of the crash. The accident happened at the start of the busy school holiday period, and just as many from the Perth and Peel regions were being freed from lockdown restrictions.
“It looks like a caravan and SUV flipped over,” the witness said. “The SUV was pulled upright just before this photo was taken … cars were lined up as tow trucks cleared the road.”
Looking at the skid marks, I am guessing he had the speed wobbles, as he made it into the oncoming lane. Not saying this was his problem. I had a van overtake me 4 days ago, I was doing my normal 95kmph, that I travel at in just the car and no van, and this van overtakes me on a straight, he must have been doing at lest 120kmph, aqnd he gets the speed wobbles, all over the road, he managed to keep it upright, but didn’t slow down, kept on doing maybe 110kmph. Their were skid marks all over the road. What is the need to do that type of speed with a big van on the back. I can remember years ago in NSW that when towing anything the speed limit was 90kmpr, I feel, that it should be the same today.
No one towing a van should be passing at great speed but saying that if they get the wobbles up I have always been told to speed up to get out of it and not slow down.
If you speed up you are adding more energy into what is already a system with too much energy in it.
If your van starts to sway, gently take your foot off the throttle and apply the van brakes only – using the electric brake controller. Try to steer in a consistent direction, as if you try to counter the sway, your reactions will be lagging behind what the van is doing and you will make the sway worse. Once the van settles down, gently apply the brakes on car and van using the foot brake – pull over and change your underwear.
Spot on
As a retired semi trailer drive and driving instructor that is not the thing to do slow down. And practice using your brakes to slow down by applying the brake softly. Jumping on the brake pedal will flip you over so softly and bring the unit back under control.
Never never never ever speed up absolutely worst idea you can do
Makes it ten times worse.
Just back off throttle this works wonders. In most scenarios it will straighten up especially under 100kmhr
If for some silly reason going faster than 100 Ensure trailer brake is at max and just dab brake to make van pull up vehicle
A crash at higher speed is a greater impact
No no no no do not speed up
The speed limit in WA towing anything is 100kph. I understand that in NSW the max is also 100kph if your GCM is over 4500kg. Having a speed limit doesn’t meant everyone will abide by it tho !
Spot on there Steve. Personally I treat a speed limit as just that, not a challenge, like some.
My 80 to 90 kph is very comfortable.
I think you will find the speed limit of 100kph in NSW is for vehicles over 4500kg GVM not GCM.
Dont know if this is still applicable however it refers to GCM . With heavier vans nowadays a very large number of combinations would fall within this category. – Regulation 21 provides that the maximum speed for a ‘vehicle and trailer combination with a GCM [Gross Combination Mass] over 4.5 tonnes … is 100 kilometres per hour’. That appears to be the only relevant speed limit in NSW (see also Road and Maritime Services, Towing (u.d))
Look at the size and weight of that van compared to the car.
You must be very “tech savvy” to work that out from a photo 😉
I have attended a lot of accidents in my previous job, more then I would like to remember, you can tell where those skid marks came from in the pic.
These comments prove that some people don’t know how to overtake or allow other vehicles to over take.