Kinetic recovery gone wrong???

It was a towing accident not a recovery - according to the Courier Mail website.

Totally agree...."a timely reminder to US all" .

It isn't the first and won't be the last sadly.

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Reporters are so quick to say almost anything to get the story first. They cant pronounce town names let alone report on accidents properly if its a car or truck so on. Will just have to wait for the real story I guess. What ever it is some one has lost a child. It sure is a reminder of what can go wrong during a recovery.

There is some more information here about what went wrong here -

http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=10075

Like i said originally it sounds like a snatch recovery.

Suspect the terminology used is that of inexperienced or ill informed people.

I have heard a snatch (or kinetic recovery to give it its correct name) being called "tow" or "winch" in the media before.

I would think it unlikely that a D shackle bolt attached to a winch would be capable of striking a rear seat passenger, remembering that in 99% of vehicles the winch is mounted at the front, so the vehicles are likely to have been facing each other.

It'll be interesting to see if the whole story is ever reported

it wasn't the D shackle like was reported on the Myswag forum, it was actually the factory toyota recovery / tie down point that let go.
this was taken from another website, i beleive the Widebay 4x4 site....

"It was there the factory recovery point off the toyota let go not the d shackle plzz people dont believe wot every 1 says i no first hand wot happend as i was standing behind a tree in front of the car when it happend."




a truely tradgic event for all parties involved.

One of the reasons why at work (and for personal use) we lash out and spend the extra money on the fancy 'zero-spring' recovery straps.