Truck accident on Rimutakas (4 May)

[bistard]

I have just come back from the Wairarapa,in a car sadly,but on the north side,just by where the reconsruction is going on there was a medium sized truck that had gone through the barrier & down the bank,two very large tow trucks were atempting to pull it back onto the road

[Grub]

Sometimes you scratch your head and wonder how people end up in situations like that.

Watch trucks going down the Takas or the Gorge and see how many *don't* go down in the same gear they would go up in. Brakes fail, people die.

[SPman]

In Oz, any step grades require trucks to stop at the top and go down in first gear at max 40kph (usually about 25!).