From the report: "As the process is self-exciting it is likely to have happened very quickly and given very little warning." This explains my not hearing or feeling anything prior to the failure. A couple of you sure jumped on me for that. I always apologize if I err in a statement. Not holding my breath however.
I do hope you all can appreciate how this could have been life ending for me or one of my sons and others driving behind if it had happened during rush hour in the middle lane of the Kwinana Fwy on Mt Henry bridge. Nobody seems to grasp that the failure resulted in no brakes (no brake fluid) and no steering with a front wheel locked and dragging on its side at 100kph. Had you any mechanical nouse and so appreciated the severity of this failure at the outset, perhaps I would have been sympathized with, not ridiculed.
A guy I used to work with once left a steering column bolt off on a power steering rack.
The bolt that holds the coupling.
The owner came off the Barton Hwy near the Hume Hwy at 100kmh.
He came in, didn't go off his head but had a stern conversation with my boss at the time.
My boss came out to the workshop, he asked what happened, we explained what had transpired.
We worked out who was at fault, he told him to go home before he knocks him out.
The owner never saw any of that.
How you approach a situation can change the outcome.