Peter W Jones  MInstP 

 

The above left photo and large item below depicts a media ad for an electric caravan mover.

I show this because I do not have a photograph of my other current caravan.

My caravan is about the same size as the above but I have owned mine  for about 16 years.

It is a Lunar Delta 590 Twin Axle.

I had one serious snake with this van when I was travelling at about 50 mph in a 50 mph road works on the M5. I was caught unawares when a large HGV passed at a highly illegal speeed. ie the bow wave caused the snaking.

It is a terrible situation to face as the slightest application of the car brakes may have a dangerous effect on the over run caravan brakes that only work if the van catches up with the  car.

As I have explained at length elsewhere in these blogs if the van catches up with the tow car when the former is not in a dead straight line with the latter, the tow car could be spun round.

  I have my car radio on for “traffic announcements” when on holiday in the West Country and hardly a day goes by without a report of an over turned caravan holding up traffic. These only count for “accident statistics” if a person is killed or seriously injured.  As other road users can view the build up of a serious snake and take avoiding action the incidence of injuries will be much lower than for most other types of accident.

Edited 30-09-09

I have now added an actual photograph of my lunar caravan taken just before I changed it for a more recent larger van. It has appeared to the right of the small photo above.

I will endeavour to tidy up this post ASAP.