Car transportation can sometimes go terribly wrong unless the vehicle is secured in place properly. And we've got the best example possible. A Subaru WRX slid off the flatbed that was supposed to transport it to its destination and was inches from falling off a cliff. Some rocks on the side of the road prevented the disaster.
We have seen many crashes caused by improper attachment of the transported vehicles to the trailer that ships them. But driving up a mountain road with a flatbed and a car on it that is not secured into place might top them all.
This definitely spells trouble, no matter how you look at it, especially when an expensive rally-spec car is involved. Pulling the hand brake, strapping and chaining the vehicle to the flatbed are never optional procedures.
Footage captured by one of the onlookers shows the trailer truck braking and the rally car that it carries bouncing forward and then starting to roll backward. The moment the truck braked, the onlookers tried to warn the driver that the car he was carrying was sliding off.
You would expect the car to stop at some point, guessing that it is probably secured to the trailer somehow, but it doesn't. Things instantly go from bad to worse. The Subaru WRX just slides off the flatbed, hits the dirt road, passes by a red Alfa Romeo Tonale, which reverses to get out of the way and avoid a collision and even be dragged off the cliff by the Subaru.
The Subaru WRX was saved by rocks
The Subaru gains momentum and seems to be on its way to falling off the cliff. Luckily, some rocks on the side of the road somehow managed to prevent the disaster.
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Whoever put it up there obviously ignored the basic rules of car transportation. Unless the truck driver loves stunts such as this one, involving a Subaru WRX rally car. The incident uploaded to social media was reportedly filmed on a mountain road somewhere in Turkey.
It is unclear what sort of damage the rally car sustained. But the video shows that, the moment it slid off, the underride of the car banged the edge of the trailer. The impact almost ripped off the front bumper and the hood.
Rally cars are, indeed, built to withstand all sorts of rough situations. But falling off a flatbed is not one of them.
We have been showing tow truck drivers picking up cars that broke down for quite a while. Sometimes, strapping the vehicles they are to transport to the trailer takes more than the transportation itself.
A correct procedure to make sure that the car is not going anywhere without the truck that is supposed to take it to its destination, be it a service shop or dealership, is the one carried out by Dustin, aka Towtruck_Dustin on YouTube.
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