Unhappy Prado owner.....Video

[rijidij]

I stole this link from the LROCV site. Apparently the video was taken on Melbourne Cup weekend at (or should I say 'in') the Wonnangatta River.

"Oh what a feeling " (http://www.australianimage.com.au/HCC/hcc5/PB012255.wmv)


Cheers, Murray

[flyreels]

the link dosent work, well not for me anyway?

[Nick S]

As they say if you can't walk it don't try to drive it!

[isuzutoo-eh]

Flyreels, you have to either save it and open it in a media player program, or open it directly into a media playing program.

Hope it was insured and empty!

[bee utey]

Link works for me :) needs windows media player. How to ruin a Prado owner's day :(.

[PAT303]

Yeh but the salesman said it'll go anywhere in low range. Pat

[trobbo]

you would have to be mad to attempt to drive through a river flowing that fast. :eek:

Pitty the poor sods inside the car. You don't want to stay in it but then you would want to have good life insurance if you were going to try and get out...

[ATH]

I've got a Prado and know it'll go anywhere.......:D But surely anyone with half a brain could see that crossing a river in flood like that, was an impossible, stupid thing to attempt.
Years ago when working at Bamboo Creek I took some of the lads out on a Sunday for a trip to Shay Gap in a Toyota Coaster bus, but got to the De Grey and the water was running hard and well up my thighs.
Despite the pleadings of my loony mates no way was I going to attempt that.
So we drank the "emergency only" cartons we'd bought along instead.:D
Alan.

[zuno555]

This was posted a week or so ago, can't remember if it was in general chat or not?
Apparently the guy had his wife and 2 kids in the car as well. I think someone on this forum helped rescue them, would have been a scary ride, luckily they all got out ok. No way would I have attempted that with the river flowing that fast!!

[vnx205]

It was here.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/116368-wonangatta.html#post1363820

Some extra details available on that thread.

[vnx205]

This was posted a week or so ago, can't remember if it was in general chat or not?
Apparently the guy had his wife and 2 kids in the car as well. I think someone on this forum helped rescue them, would have been a scary ride, luckily they all got out ok. No way would I have attempted that with the river flowing that fast!!

Of course it is just possible that the river was nowhere near that high or that fast when he drove in.

Nah! If he is silly enough to head bush in a Prado, he is probably silly enough to attempt to walk on water.

[p38arover]

Poor bugger. You guys may not, but i feel sorry for him.

[ozscott]

I feel for him. In a Deefer he would of course have drowned because of the lack of door SEALS...:D

[Xtreme]

Of course it is just possible that the river was nowhere near that high or that fast when he drove in.

Nah! If he is silly enough to head bush in a Prado, he is probably silly enough to attempt to walk on water.

Fully agree with your first statement - I'm sure I read somewhere that at some stage the water was up to the roof rack. At a guess I would say that he has tackled the crossing on a rising river in an attempt to avoid being trapped at Wonnangatta for a number of days with his young family - obviously made a bad assesment/judgement and has suffered the consequences.

Even if he had have been successful in crossing the river, I doubt his chances of getting out of the valley under obviously very wet conditions and involving some very steep, long, hard packed clay climbs.
He could have come to more grief if things had gone wrong on one of those ascents. There was a fatality on the Herne Spur Track a few years back when a vehicle lost traction and rolled over the edge.

[spudboy]

That is a LOT of water flowing. Don't reckon you'd get through that even in a Unimog....

Bad way to end a holiday :(