Triton - spare knocked on wood!

[Kevin]

As reported by @hhouston6 a piece of wood punctured the sidewall on the small-big-lap-wa-cape-leveque-gibb-river-road trip report.

How's this - nearly punctured the spare on the Triton which is mounted underneath!

 

[Ratbag]

Bugger! Never even occurred to me that this could happen.

 

[NachaLuva]

A few years ago there was a Facebook post of a guy who had a branch punch through the floor of his 4wd, through his leg & into his shoulder. He survived after lengthy surgeries

 

[Kevin]

Ouch! I do recall that incident.

 

[Ratbag]

Almost anything that can happen, will happen ... eventually.

One simply cannot guard one's self against the one in a million/one in a billion chance. That way lies madness!

 

[ABFoz]

A few years ago there was a Facebook post of a guy who had a branch punch through the floor of his 4wd, through his leg & into his shoulder. He survived after lengthy surgeries

Oooh! I can only imagine the pain and annoyance. That's just four-wheel driving to the extreme!

 

[subyroo]

A few years ago there was a Facebook post of a guy who had a branch punch through the floor of his 4wd, through his leg & into his shoulder. He survived after lengthy surgeries

When I was a teenager (many many years ago now ) in Riverina NSW, a family friend who lived about 150m away owned an EK Holden Special.
He was driving down the highway at 60 mph when the tailshaft speared through the back floor - back seat and out through the boot lid. The front of the tail shaft had let go and dug into the bitumen road, he was one very lucky man.

 

[Kevin]

Phew! Lucky indeed.

The funniest, and scariest, thing I ever saw involving a piece of timber was at my primary school when a night cart crashed through the school fence. It careered across the school yard and into the neighbouring property fences where a horizontal rail went straight through the passenger side windscreen and out the back of the cab. I bet that driver had pants full of "chocolate" as well as his truck! Also very lucky no one was hurt.

 

[Ratbag]

One of station managers hit a roo in the station ute (Falcon). The gearbox ended up in the tray ... he was going at highway speeds on the road out of Cunnamulla.