5th wheel rollover accident
With B/W hitch: Link We saw a TT rollover on a backroad in Idaho and the TT was reduced to splinters and scrap sheet metal. There were a large number of propane tanks tho, 4 or so. So I wondered i...
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WTP-GC wrote:jerem0621 wrote:
So, is the B&W Companion designed to separate like that in an accident?
Jeremiah
I think the combination of opposing forces in this incident might have very caused just about any similar hitch design to separate.
What other hitch is designed like the B&W? I mean every hitch I am familiar with has a solid steel cross member connecting the two uprights. Actually on mine, the head sits in saddles that are part of the cross member. B&W has nothing to keep the two uprights from spreading apart as they did.
The Hitchhiker certainly held up well.
