Sunday, Mar 21, 2010 at 14:50
After sifting thru several forums and road rules sites It is not illegal to travel with the gas turned on.
Gas does not come under road rules any way it is under health and safety or some such bureaucratic nightmare.
Witness food trucks round tradie sites etc.
It is however incredibly stupid.
There was the remains of a van on the
Eighty mile beach road a few months ago that was attributed to a broken gas pipe igniting somehow.
Dont know if fridge was on but the gas certainly was. Luckily they managed to unhitch the thing before they lost the lot.
Also at Bank Banka mid last year a guy lost his camper and car and ended up in hospital together with his wife.
He actually came on a
forum with the reason which was.
He had a portable GAS fridge sitting on the ground behind the car.
He decided to take the jerry cans off the front of the trailer.
They had expanded during the day so he removed the cap and fuel gushed out and
the pilot light on the fridge blew the lot.
Wasnt a gennie or anything else. Thats what the owner said in answer to all the rumours.
2 good reasons not to have any gas going
Mazcan I thought you had more sense.
The older the van the more brittle the metal lines and so more likely to rupture.
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