Boat/Car accident Easter (NW Coastal Hwy)
Submitted by Tandawg on Mon, 2011-05-02 09:45
I have just returned from a week up in Exmouth which started on Easter Saturday.
About 120Km south of Carnarvon (10.00pm) we noticed a brand new 6m glass boat smashed on side of road with its trailer mangled about 32m away ( opp side of road).
West side of road we saw heaps of personal items like fishing gear and items strewn in the scrub with a 4WD wheel.
The crash had been reported as it had the orange sticker.
I hope no one was hurt, but it certainly looked like carnage.
Does anyone have some info about this?
Chris
Carry
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prang
No idea on that one but i have just travelled back from perth with a new car and when i was overtaking a truck with two trailers on i had it swerve into my lane until most of my car was in the bush i also had a culvert approaching fast lucky the new car is v8 diesel landcruiser with power to burn i powered up and just made it in front of the culvert with 3 kids and missus in the car could have been pretty ugly i give the prick a spray over the 2 way but no reply . I know most truck drivers are ok i talk to a few of them on the radio but for fuck sake if your tired pull over .(in a car or a truck).We could have quite easily become another statistic i think if i had have backed off the back trailer probably would have got us and if i was in my old car (80 series) i wouldnt have had the power to pull away so all in all i think the new cruiser has paid for itself already.
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mullows
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Same thing happened to my
Same thing happened to my missus the last time she drove to Perth Carry ended up in the dirt on the wrong side of the road before getting control. Lucky!
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Mullows
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Carry
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you gotta wonder
you gotta wonder how many times this happens out there it took 10years off my life thankfully both families are allright.
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TWITCHEMUP
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2 many..
IMHO there's just way too many trucks on the road these days I travel 160km each day for work and the amount of trucks I see each day at all times of the day is just crazy....
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Yeah I saw that boat. Be very
Yeah I saw that boat. Be very interested to know how it happened also.
Was pretty surprised to see the outboard still attached!
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.