Careful with your alko caravan hitch!
Just spent two weeks at the Looe site, which was nice, apart from one incident that made us wince a bit.
Looe is a terraced site, with the terrace above our caravan also having the loo block & the site road, which turns up an incline.
7:30 in the morning, a few minutes after hearing our neighbours hitch up & drive off, the was an almighty bang, screech, & crunch, at which point my wife, who was in the awning, "better get out, there is a caravan above our heads. i leapt out, as you came
image, and sure enough there was half a caravan hanging off the terrace!
The van had become unhitched as the tow car was going up the incline. And although the brake had come on, they do not work so well going backwards. The only thing that saved us was a foot high grass bank. One wheel was on the edge of the bank, and the 'van
has spun around the other wheel which had caught on a drain cover. The jockey wheel tyre had been ripped off as well.
A number of other caravaners joined us and we made safe the van and actually manhandled it back on to the 4x4 tow car, & he dragged it off the grassy Knole.
slight damage to the van £& jockey wheel, but other than that we all breathed a sigh of relief & I went and had a strong cuppa!
He had one of those Alko hitches with a big lever you pull over, and I reckon he had it balanced on the car towball, he thought it was connected (easy to do with one of those) and set of on his merry way.
Not the kind of wake-up call you want, but no major harm done considering what could have happened, and big lessons learnt I think!