by Joe Jeffrey
Moment caravan detaches from jeep on road caught on film
We here at CaravanTimes can’t stress enough how important it is to know exactly what you’re doing when it comes to towing – we just wish one unlucky caravan knew it too, following the emergence of footage revealing the moment a caravan detaches from a Land Rover’s towbar before indiscriminately crashing into a set of traffic lights.
The incident, which occurred in a usually busy city centre street in Liverpool, begins by showing a Land Rover – ironically enough the same make of car (but not model as our eagle-eyed readers have pointed out) recently voted Towcar of the Year 2016 – steadily driving through Oxford Street with its caravan in tow and, within seconds, the drama unfolds as the caravan disconnects from the vehicle and veers into a set of traffic lights, crossing over into the main road’s opposite lane in the process.
Luckily, the street on which the accident occurred seems to have been relatively free of pedestrians and traffic travelling in the opposite direction at the time, otherwise there is no telling what type of catastrophe could have been caused.
It just goes to show that no matter what you’re towing with, it always helps to connect your breakaway cable to your towbar to prevent ruining your holiday and, more importantly, costing lives.
Check out the video below and feel free to provide your own towing tips in the comments below.
