Fellow Land Rover Owner Tragedy

So sad, this story.

It does remind me again we are a bit more vulnerable travelling on older vehicles, no matter what the cause in this case.

Am seriously thinking now of changing to a newer family vehicle. All options including a Defender and Landcruiser of course are several generations more safety features than our D2 which has no passenger airbags or ESC which are the biggest missing safety features.

My in laws will be getting rid of their 2010 Prado Kakadu soon which is an option. Nice family car but what a shocker of an engine. Don’t think I can go Toyota just yet!

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Originally Posted by prelude

But that 5yo girl is a hero in my book.

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Absolutely. I'm surprised a 5yo was able to think that through and accomplish it.

200 kays only 2 hours on good roads. Yes it is nut those back roads aren't places where you can keep up 100kph constantly. At night especially there's all sorts of dangers apart from bad vision and animals of all kinds. Best to limit speeds to about 80 on regional roads.
A sickening incident and as others have said amazing the little one did what she did.
AlanH

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Originally Posted by BradC

I'm conflicted about that statement.

A more modern and arguably "safer" car may have seen the front seat occupants survive. An extra hours sleep may have avoided it entirely. Relying on "technology" (whether that be in design or operation) to overcome poor judgement tends to result in the judgement getting worse because "the technology will take care of it".

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Sometimes seen in the aviation world... aircraft too clever by half, lulling pilots into false security.