Mario, I dispute your point. Whilst its a significant accident, I see nothing on the web link that says this accident happened due to poor suspension. Fully loaded overland vehicles are far from good at high speed emergency manouvering. The sequence of events as outlined on the web page start with a manouvre to avoid an oncoming vehicle followed by losing control and hitting a rock face before rolling over. Whilst different suspension may have given a different outcome, there is nothing definitive to support your argument in their account. I've driven a standard landrover in Australia and ended up spinning through 180 degrees at high speed in the outback due to a local pulling of the dirt on to the road straight in front of me and the standard suspension was fine. Fortunately managed to come to a halt without a problem and the suspension coped well.
There are masses of old vehicles all over africa travelling around without difficult, I doubt the locals are running the latest brand new suspension. A large part will come down to driving the vehicle in a way which matches the vehicles capabilites, a driver may need to make greater allowances for older / softer suspension. Equally in respect the accident, there is also an element of luck, the most expensive highly kitted up vehicle available is still susceptable to the African custom of overtaking two or three abreast on blind corners or for that matter directly into oncoming traffic.
Last edited by Toby2; 23 May 2008 at 14:47.
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