A woman says she considers herself extremely lucky after she lost control of her car towing a caravan and crashed into a tree in South Australia.
Rachael Byers was driving along the Glenelg Highway to Halls Gap in the Grampians yesterday, when the accident happened just outside Glenburnie near the Victorian border,
“I’m not really sure what happened … the car just started swerving,” she told Adelaide Now. “Then it went bang!”
Ms Byers said she ‘feels quite lucky’ as there was a larger tree nearby.
The driver’s side door was trapped against the fallen tree so Ms Byers had to exit the vehicle from the passenger door.
She was not injured in the drama.
Officer in Charge of the Limestone Coast Superintendent Campbell Hill urged drivers to ‘drive to arrive’ and drive to the conditions.
“Two thirds of the people that die on regional roads are regional people,” Supt. Hill told Adelaide Now. “People think it just won’t happen to them … the statistics tell us that on regional roads there is a high chance that it’s regional people dying.”
There have been a number of caravan rollovers in recent days.
Wife and I have been on the road for six years the stuff we have seen near misses are just unbelievable . People need to slow down we own and travel in a motorhome towing a Suzuki Grand Vitara behind . I only sit on 90 max as I feel I’m in control if an animal crosses in front of us that has happen a few times . Then off goes a caravans r flying past us at around 100 plus pulls in and gets the wobbles . And breaks of all things . This is my opinion a lot of travels would agree we all need to take responsibility and really slow down it’s not a joke . We have like a lot of us grey nomads grand kids we want to spend Xmas with . Question ?? What is your hurry ?? I normally pass a lot of these vans on side of the road stopping for toilet break ??
Wonder if speed the problem.?