Caravan couple escape uninjured from rollover

Published: October 6, 2015

A grey nomad couple is ‘extremely lucky’ to suffer only very minor injuries after their car and caravan rolled on a Central Queensland highway yesterday.

The male driver who is in his 70s was trapped upside down in his vehicle until being freed by emergency services. The female passenger, also in her 70s, managed to get out of the vehicle unaided.

The pair were travelling south on a relatively straight stretch of the Isis Highway about 20 kilometres south of Bundaberg when the crash occurred, and it left the car and caravan upside down in the middle of the highway.

Police are still trying to determine what caused to male driver to lose control of his car.

“Over the course of about 100m it appears that he has tried to maintain some sort of control but this has failed and as a result his vehicle has overturned,” forensic crash investigator, Senior Constable Timothy Lowth, told the Bundaberg News Mail.  “This time of the year there are a lot of caravans on the road and we ask both drivers and also other people to give them a wide berth to make sure it is safe for their passage and if you are driving a vehicle, know how to drive it.”

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hi all
only one thing to say I/we hope they are both all good now
accidents do happen for all sorts of reasons
I try not to judhe until the experts have done there job

I note that it is a single axle, and there for a very light van. We had one and got rid of it a couple of years ago, after experiencing some sways.
Hope the couple get back on the road and continue to enjoy their travels, and not be put off by this unforunate incident.’Jay&Dee

Looks like an ancient Millard.
Designed when the National maximum towing speed (excluding Vic and the NT) for anything over 500kg was 80kph, and with poorly made leaf spring suspension and a super flexible small box chassis.

We owned a 1978 18×8 Millard and did over 40,000km towing it around this great country with a Mitsubishi Lancer 1.5litre, because the laws then (and now) allowed it because its’ tare was only 1100kg. This didn’t make it a safe van however and at speeds over 80kph even with a heavy fourby tug, it wagged like crazy. They all did back then. The flexible chassis made them great for corrugated roads, but take a modern car with soft suspension and an old van designed pre 1898 and the potential for a blacktop 100kph jackknifing is a very real possibility.

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