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Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Keswick Green

Land Rover & caravan overturn

http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Coupl...story.html

Sounds like they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

17th Mar 2015 9:12am

steventheplumber

Member Since: 29 Apr 2014
Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 767

1987 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Keswick Green

Glad they where ok

19th Mar 2015 10:42am

ericvv

Member Since: 02 Jun 2011
Location: Near the Jet d'Eau
Posts: 5816

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

Similar situation here this week on the highway Geneva-Lausanne. Driver said he does not know what happened, his trailer began to swing and that became uncontrollable.... Speed I guess.

But they normally make very good cheeseburgers, so hope they find quick replacement.

And more proof that if something unexpected happens, a Defender is hard (impossible) to keep in check. The below was in Belgium due to the city bus which did not yield, and the Defender driver tried to avoid the bus by a sharp zig zag maneuver....

Now, the good news. In both accidents, nobody got hurt.

Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o
https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I
https://vimeo.com/201482507
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw

22nd Mar 2015 10:00am

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

I wonder if those boards on both sides of the roof rack had anything to do with the first accident?

22nd Mar 2015 10:47am

ARC99

Member Since: 19 Feb 2013
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 1831

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Cairns Blue

[quote="ericvv"]Similar situation here this week on the highway Geneva-Lausanne. Driver said he does not know what happened, his trailer began to swing and that became uncontrollable.... Speed I guess.

But they normally make very good cheeseburgers, so hope they find quick replacement.

Speed is a distinct possibility but the more probable is that the trailer has not been loaded correctly i.e. not having the weight over the axels but either in front or behind them which is the case of most trailer/caravan accident were the tail wags the dog. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place,
so it doesn't take much to

us off.

Richard

22nd Mar 2015 11:53am

PCA42

Member Since: 15 Jun 2014
Location: Church Stretton
Posts: 468

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Tonga Green

Well, he ALMOST took out that speed camera!

Pete

2010 Discovery 4 GS TDV6
1972 Series III 88" 2.25P

23rd Mar 2015 1:41am

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