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Cloud_Dancer
Jun 21, 2015Explorer II
Kayteg1 wrote:
You can make any definitions you want, but it is clear for me that it wasn't flat tire that overturned the motorhome and not the driver error.
Actually, I took that definition from a dictionary on Google. I just happen to agree on at what point the loss of control actually occurs. In this case I can tell you that if you allow the motorhome to go all the way to the grass,......once you get on the grass, there's really no hope of gaining control. At that point there was no way to keep it from getting into the cable arrangement. You can call it luck or happenstance that there was grass, plus a downward slope, plus a cable. It was too late, anyway you cut it.
We can break down the study of the event into segments, and discuss what happened in each segment. That's how we studied aviation accidents (twice a year). You can come to some meaningful conclusions using this method.
What I take away from this motorhome accident is that if you can't maintain immediate directional control, you're pretty much tattooed.
And, it can happen to anybody.
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