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√Video – Frightening dash cam footage as road train narrowly misses oncoming car before rolling

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Overtaking can be dangerous enough, but at night the risks jump even higher as this dash cam footage from Western Australia shows.

Dash cam footage published on Twitter by Dash Cam Owners Australia has captured a road train rolling after a poorly judged overtaking maneuver in remote Western Australia.

The incident occurred on the Great Eastern Highway in Moorine Rock, about halfway between Perth and Kalgoorlie. The footage, captured from a truck initially travelling at 97km/h, shows a two-trailer road train (A-Double) passing overtaking at night. As the centre line turns solid (noting a bend in the road and an upcoming T-intersection), a car is seen approaching from the oncoming direction.

The camera truck brakes and the overtaking truck swerves quickly back into the lane, missing the oncoming car by inches, but the sudden lane change upsets the balance of the second trailer which rolls. The camera truck slows enough to avoid a second collision.

While the Great Eastern Highway has a speed limit of 110km/h, the accident occurred less than a kilometre from the 80km/h zone of the Moorine Rock township, suggesting that the A-Double truck should have waited before attempting the maneuver.

Australian regulations note that heavy vehicles above 12-tonne gross mass (GVM) are limited to 100km/h regardless of the speed limit, and road trains are limited to 90km/h. If the A-Double was operating under the former regulations (as a heavy twin-trailer but not a road train), it would have been passing the camera truck at a maximum differential of 5km/h. This means the 36.5-meter-long A-Double would have taken at least 27 seconds to pass, which at 100km/h would take approximately 750m to complete.

That’s a long time to spend on the wrong side of the road, at night, approaching a town.

No one was injured in the incident and the truck wreckage has been cleared.

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