A caravanner was lucky to escape uninjured when his vehicle crashed after being hit from behind by another vehicle.
The ABC reports that Corey Marriott was driving a campervan and towing a caravan along Forrest Highway in Myalup in WA’s South West when it was hit by a speeding white Holden Commodore.
The 34-year-old said the Commodore hit the rear of his vehicle causing the caravan to jackknife, and the campervan to roll multiple times.
“There is nothing recoverable or salvageable from either, not a single panel on the car,” he told ABC South West Breakfast.
Mr Marriott said witnesses had seen the white Commodore driving erratically before yesterday’s crash.
Police are looking for the driver of the Commodore. PIC: WA Police.
“They already had the suspicions something was going to go down based on the poor behaviour of the driver on the road,” he said. “They had to bear witness to the incident. … I feel for them because they thought that we would be dead.”
Incredibly, Mr Marriott and his passenger came away from the crash unscathed, but he told the ABC that he checked himself into hospital as a precaution.
“The adrenaline was pretty solid and we were able to clean up the scene,” he said. “But my parents were like ‘you better go get checked’.”
South West Police Superintendent Geoff Stewart said police told the ABC they were searching for the driver of the Commodore.
“People that drove past would have seen the carnage of destruction to the vehicles,” he said. “We’ve received information already … and we are chasing anything at all from anyone else that was there at the time that might have had dash-cam prior to or after.”
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Yes. My Landcruiser towing my 3.ot Van up Blackbutt Range and holding speed to the sign rated 60 k/h was sharply cut off by an annoyedPatrol driver who did not appreciate the 60 speed limit. Tbat sharp sserving cut off by him had me brake rapidly and no doubt worried the second car behind me. Too many impatient P Plater drivers on the road who disobey the speed limits.
Yes quite some Years ago whilst Towing an old Caravan, in Qld on the Highway leading from the Gold Coast to Brisbane ( on the Multi Lane section ) about half wayup forom the Gold Coast to Brisbane, some Idiots in a Holden Sedan decided to Speed past us ( we were in the Lane 2 out off the Lefthand side to avoid the Side Slip Lane ) traveling around 95KPH a safe speed for a Car with a Caravan, when the Driver of the Holden Sedan must have thought it would be afaun to Cut in in front of me and immediately ( for NO reason severley apply the Brakes of his Holden sedan, I was able to Stop in Time and my Wife got the Registration Number of the Holden Sedan and we were able to report this to the Qld Police who were able to search the Registrations List and charged the Driver with Dangerous Driving, it turns out another Motorist saw the situation and had also notified the Qld Police about this drivers reckless driving that day. and he was Fined accordinly.
I was driving past Ballina on the expressway doing about 85-90 mph, ahead of me I could see a car parked on the side of the road when I was about 6 ft away the car did a u turn right in front of me, I slammed on my brakes and waited for the crash, the driver of the car saw me put his foot down and got around me with about 2 inches to spare, I looked in the fear view mirror to see him heading the wrong way up the highway into oncoming traffic then he vanished into the scrub in the middle of the highway. We had to sit for a minute to stop heart racing, cars were going past giving me the sign of the cross. We were very lucky not to have been killed and I put it down to the fact that I was not driving fast. I was towing a small A-van and my MUX did a great job of stopping. I have a bigger van now and continue to drive around the 85-90 mark you never know when you have to stop in a hurry.
I had a near accident when at Rolleston Qld a semi towing a low loader was REALLY travelling to fast on a dirt road as we came across a narrow grid. Luckily my wife managed to control our van down into a table drain. Got him on the UHF and told him too slow down
Idiot.