Bad Roll Over!!

bungie

Member
This is NOT me I just copy and paste it


Source Pajero Roll Over - Pajero 4WD Club of Victoria Public Forum


Well guys I'd thought I supply you with some detail on a recent mishap of mine.

Late November I went away with a group of guys up near Talbingo Reservoir up behind Tumbarumba NSW. There was 5 vehicles in total and it was a drive in on Saturday and out Sunday swag camping over nighter thing.

Nice little spot but we got rained on over night but hey you get that.

Anyhow we left our camping spot about 9:30 am on the one way in same way out track and I was second last.
There was a step incline on the track and although we made it up the last older 4x4 didn't have the power to get out.

So we were asked to back down to provide a snatch/tow up.

In the Pajero was myself and a mate.
We both had the thought as we got back in the Paj as to getting one of us to maybe guide us down but neither of us voiced this thought. There were a couple of young guys with us who were going to video tape the snatch and we also thought that they'd yell out if something was going wrong, but nor did we say anything to them.

Now you'll very quickly see what went wrong and how quickly and easily it happened.
Basically I backed and went out of the wheel ruts, then slide back, the back left hand side wheel ended up in the right handside rut and this wheel then acted as a wedge and then gravity took over.

As we went on the side I looked down and checked that my mate had his head, arms, etc inside which he did. I then said we're going over mate.
We then rolled on the roof, then the weight of the front end took us over the bank.
We then collected one tree and took that one out. This then pushed us over towards the second tree as we started to go for another roll. This second tree stopped us thankfully as after that there just really wasn't to many large trees and simply put we won't be here.

I stuck my hand out and touched the tree and checked it was stable, checked my mate was ok grabbed the mobile and sat phone and said lets get the
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out of here.

Other then a bit of whip lash and shock we both came out of it pretty well.

We got a lot of gear out with out putting anyone in danger.

A couple of impressive things, the motor was still running, the Waeco fridge not only survived but was also still running when we opened the back door. Front and back windows remained in tact.

Took the insurance company's salvage crew 19 hours to get it out.

Now go easy with your opinions guys as I'm sure you'll appreciate that I've beaten myself up pretty much over the incident.

Car's can be replaced but people can't and to effectively walk away with very little injury we can just be thankfull hey!

So I supply this detail and the video to the world as just to show everyone how easy things happen and take it easy out there.
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So here's the bit I know you're all wanting to see, the video: - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYmDOzoibk or http://tinyurl.com/2ntu9g
 
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theogs

New Member
how quickly things can go horribly wrong... OMG lucky the guys were ok, and insured Id watched this on utube before... makes me keep the windows wound up and the kids strapped in 100 % of the time,,
 

Pure Yobbo

Moderator
Just proves how easily and quickly things can go wrong. Glad to hear everyone was ok.

Hopefully people watch this and it teaches them to be careful in the bush.

Cheers
 
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