Emergency dispatchers received a call about a hit-and-run accident in a campground in Nashwauk, Minnesota. After an investigation, it turned out quite differently: An RVer was run down by their rig.
Life-saving efforts failed after RVer run down by their rig
Itasca County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the City of Nashwauk campground around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 11. Officers immediately began life-saving efforts before medics could arrive, but those efforts were in vain. The 59-year-old woman, a resident of Silver Springs, Florida, died of her injuries.
Evidently, the woman’s unattended truck and travel trailer started to roll, hitting the RVer fatally. The RVer’s name was not released by press time, as her family had yet to be notified.
The details of this tragic incident are limited. However, all RVers should be aware of safety and the importance of wheel chocking. Here’s an important story that brings up what many RVers aren’t aware of. Wheel chocks don’t last forever.
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I have caught a few RVers drop their tongue jack, about to disengage their hitch with no wheel chocks. “Why do I need to chock the wheels? The tongue jack holds the trailer until I put the stabilizer jacks down. And then it can’t go anywhere.”
Famous last words, especially if the surface is loose gravel and there is any pitch to the site.
What a sad ending for the poor woman. With just a bit of common sense, and knowledge, a very preventable disaster could have been avoided
Thank you, Russ and Tina! 🙂 This is tragic, yet also interesting. We drive, not tow, our RV, so I may lack sufficient understanding to imagine how this might have happened. Perhaps others will have an easier job of speculating how this happened. Thanks again and safe travels! 🙂