Overturned vehicles involve mostly trucks with heavy loads
The following article was published by Channel NewsAsia on 25 Feb 2008. Overturned vehicles involve mostly trucks with heavy loads 25 February 2008 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE : The MediaCorp News hotline received eight calls about accidents involving overturned vehicles, between December last year and the first week of February this year. This compares to just two cases between October and November last year. And these are just the numbers in our records. Traffic Police say there are no exact figures of overturned vehicles in the past few months. This is because only accidents with injuries or fatalities are recorded. From the reports we received, most involved trucks carrying heavy loads. Experts say longer vehicles like trailers and lorries carrying such loads are most at risk of overturning. The reason is these vehicles have a higher centre of gravity. So a normal car with just front or back two-wheel drive has a lower risk due to its lower centre of gravity. On August 23 last year,