A man has been killed and a woman injured after their car and caravan rolled over on the Warrego Highway in Queensland.
The Chronicle newspaper reports that police and emergency services were called to the crash site 10 kilometres east of Wallumbilla on Saturday afternoon.
Preliminary investigations indicated the four wheel drive towing a caravan was travelling west on the highway when it lost control and rolled.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the man, believed to be in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene while a woman was transported to Roma Hospital with head injuries.
The couple, who names have not yet been released, is believed to be from the Brisbane suburb of Parkinson.
Local media reports that the Forensic Crash Unit was investigating the cause of the accident.
There has been spate of accidents on the Warrego Highway in recent days.
Currently staying in a caravan park, I notice that a large majority of people towing caravans etc, including Grey Nomads, fail to demonstrate a level of understanding in how to tow and reverse a caravan. This type of accident shows that more education is needed in how to tow a caravan and what to do in case of an emergency. There should also be an endorsement on the drivers license for caravan/trailer towing. My thoughts go out to the injured lady, their family and the loved ones of this couple.
Everyone is a professor with hindsight, who knows exactly what or how it occurred, many reasons but what has reversing got to do with it!!!
Firstly my condolences to the family, but I agree with Michael. There should be education in the towing of these big rigs. Being on the road permanently as we are, you see it all. We think that a lot of the car caravan/fifth wheeler combination need heaps of education/training and licenses to match.
Agree Alan. Only more strongly! Michael has no right to post that type of comment (freedom of speech) > the accident is under investigation as with all fatals. I hope that no family members see that comment. My heart goes out to them.
wet roads?, blown tyres? what ever! if you have the weight of the towing vehicle correct in proportion to the van size thats half the battle. Caravan salesmen will tell you anything to get your backside into a slighly bigger unit, the bigger the unit the bigger their commission.
The other big factor is that all van halers should be reminded how to use the electric brake system to their safe advatage, if your van starts to snake, blow a tyre, wet road with a bit of diesel on it and your on in trouble, I blew tyre outside Roma on a curve, (not speeding) The van started to snake but I’ve been around a bit, I grabbed for the finger control on the E brake system without touching the foot brake, the unit straightened up and came to a soft straight line stop, people fresh out of the office on their trip of a lifetime need to know how to re-act. I am not relating this to the above tradgity, my ideas are only intended to contribute to things I’ve seen by so-called ‘happy campers’
Just to comment on caravan yards selling you a van unsuitable for your vehicle I have to say our local caravan yard inAlbany WA will not allow you to buy van that does not comply with your vehicle towing capacity
It’s very sad, but we have no way of knowing at this time what really happened. Experienced tow driver or not, the unexpected can happen any time. I’ve had kangaroos jump in front of me in broad daylight, and come upon a cow in the middle of a narrow bridge at 1am. Living is never totally safe but I hope that this doesn’t stop anyone else from living their dream. My sympathy to the family no matter what the cause was.
Our thoughts are with the family.
As the van was travelling west and probably into the western sun, my thoughts could be that an animal has appeared and with the sun being your worst enemy out west, evasive action may well have caused the accident.
But we will probably never know. Very sad happening for the family.
Jay&Dee
we have just travelled blackall to roma and its the worst road in qld .its rough potholes leans left then right recommend 80 kmh max for caravans even roadtrains have slowed up on this section
Terrible for the family. My heart goes out to them. I’m a bit worried now. We’ve just bought a 20ft van and I’ve never even towed a trailer. A course on towing is definitely on the list of things to do for me!