Triton roll over...

Hi Duncs,

I don't envy you guy's going out to pick up the pieces... I reckon I'd be OK until it involved kids... Your perspective changes when you have your own.

The bloke got out of it OK, managed to scab a lift with the tow truck back to the yard to take the photo's. 11 pics all up, it looked like a "soft" roll but none the less it was at 75mph. Just hope I never have to test the theory.

Blue

Actually an upright seat with a lap belt will still hold you in the vehicle in most circumstances.

What is more likely and is a risk any time someone lays the seat back in any vehicle is that in a crash the seat occupant "submarines" under the seatbelt.

They either end up in the footwell with multiple lower limb and spinal fractures or ejected if the vehicle rolls a few times.

The roof on the triton has held up quite well in those pics. Going to more car like shapes and styling has lead to huge improvements in rollover safety in four wheel drives, from the days of the boxes on wheels of the seventies and early eighties. It's very hard to give any sort of structural integrity to a box.

Dave

Here you go PAUL

Mustve been 75KMH , them Tritons wont do 125...........

Would you like to post your little speedo picture again for the poor non-believing 3.0 litre TD GU (Gangbaar Uitbarsten) Nissan Patrol owner, Mr Freaky?

This one for Mr Bonz

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Gangbaar Uitbarsten... I've heard it before, googled it and got 14 pages of Dutch websites... I don't read dutch(I can swear a little) so I am still none the wiser. I found an online dutch/english dictionary, no hits there either.

Please to be enlightening me...?

OK wombat, after many attempts to translate it I decided to phone my Dutch outlaws... Shows how smart I am...

gangbaar uitbarsten=accepted burst out

They think you may have meant:

gangbaar uitbarsting=accepted outburst

lol No wonder the fuel tank is nearly empty

yer yer yer I have been down that hill too on my Billy Cart and got up to 110, without a motor...... I do remember Blue mentioning speed accomplishments of said Triton late last year.

I case my rest.

Gangbaar Uitbarsten - Expected to explode

If you take a look at the link in the first feedback, it takes you to the gallery of 11 photo's. It shows that both sides have damage but the front left is the major impact point.

In the owner's words ". . . swerved out to avoid lorry, back end alll over the show, counter steered too many times to count, went off road (grass central reservation) came back to tarmac, barrel rolled and finished off nicely with a 100 yard tobboggan sliding down the M5 on me roof."

and

". . . the mechanicals of the truck are all fine so there might be some good spoo to recover from the truck including 4 brand new geolanders but if it is spooped i have then got to buy it off the insurance company havent seen in the engine bay but i reckon most of that is okay, the truck did start up again once it was rolled back on to its wheels."