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Subject Topic: Caravan loses wheel on A27 at Shoreham
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20/4/2013 at 12:04pm
 Location: Buckinghamshire
 Outfit: VW Campers and Tents
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A caravan lost a wheel on the Shoreham bypass leaving part of the road closed for several hours.

The incident happened on this morning, Saturday April 20th at about 7.15am.

Police reported other vehicles were involved in the collision and it is believed up to five cars might have been caught up in the drama.

The A27 had to be closed eastbound before one lane was opened.

Crews are still working on removing the caravan, which is taking longer than usual due to the missing wheel, police said.

But it is hoped the road will be fully open shortly.

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20/4/2013 at 1:16pm
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Obviously not a ukcs member then? The crashed caravanners must be those that do not read the endless threads about wheelnuts & everything else....Reading ukcs before towing should be a legal requirement....


20/4/2013 at 4:30pm
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I had the same thing happen to me on the A6 coming out of Buxton a few years ago. Felt a big bump and saw the wheel going past me across the land at the side of the road.Managed to pull in( on a dangerous bend) and no other vehicle was involved thank goodness. Never move off now from anywhere without first checking wheel nuts.


20/4/2013 at 5:35pm
 Location: Scottish Borders
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Yeh I can agree more about torquing wheel nuts, I had all four tyres changed last year and first run out after refitting the wheels and torquing them up as per instructions in the hand book I stopped roughly 10 miles out from home as recommended and rechecked the nuts 20 nuts 7 required a "nip up" to the right tork 17.

 I checked again once we got to the caravan site and everything was OK. I do tend to recheck at start of every season when I am doing all the other nuts on the chaise and if i an doing the car wheels 10 mins wrench time to save a life seems a a fair price.   



20/4/2013 at 7:33pm
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yes always torque mm caravans wheel nuts better safe than sorry. Sad to say but the guy across for me has an older caravan never seems to do any thing to it set of yesterday while talking to him last year noticed that his breakaway cable was in a bad state and told him .still the same yesterday some people will never learn or be helped tyres did not look too good either.. malc


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21/4/2013 at 10:35am
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I know it's an expense, but maybe a reason for MOT's on trailers

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Jan and Simon and Jet and Amber



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