Thread: Local lad killed by towball

Originally Posted by flagg

What a complete idiot. And the nob standing next to them too.

Ayup, kind of the point really. Just lucky no one was in that passenger seat.

And in the previous vid from Ireland, they were using chain and nothing to absorb shock.

Alan

Boy killed in towing accident - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Oh dear, that is real sad just before Chrissy or at any time really.
Another case of towing incorrectly.

i heard on the radio this morning......sad indeed

very sad, he was somebody's son.

Bloody sad alright.
Another situation of a tie down point being used as a tow point ?
They ought to remove the damn things from cars when they drive them off the trucks at the dealers....

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Bloody sad alright.
Another situation of a tie down point being used as a tow point ?
They ought to remove the damn things from cars when they drive them off the trucks at the dealers....

But then how will the tow truck operator tie it down when returning it to the dealer for warranty repairs?

Two points about the accident -

1. He should not have been anywhere where he could get hit if anything failed
2. It will be interesting to find out what actually failed. Could have been the hook, for example.

I hope nobody from here was involved, but it serves as a reminder that recovery or towing is potentially dangerous and needs to be treated as such.

John

My reading between the lines is that they were 2wd cars that had been bogged - afterall if it had been 4wds the media would not have passed up the chance to mention this.

Its sounds like it was a 2wd tow hook that came off rather than a tie down point but information is sketchy in the report. In either case both are not up to it for deeply bogged cars.

Garry