Motorists describe boat on trailer being shaken violently at night near Lake Cowichan witnessed in British Columbia, Canada

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In Aug 2006 myself and my stepson and his girlfriend left to go fishing and crabbing in port renfrew bc. We had travelled about 15 to 20 kilos south past the mesachie lake turn off and decided to stop to relieve ourselves, due the bumpy road conditions. As always I made sure all the lights on the boat trailer were still working and that all tie downs were secure, we stopped for about 10 min then left, we proceeded about 250 meters and I stopped in the middle of the road so my stepson could put in a new cd into the player. I turned on the interior cab lights so he could see what he was doing. As he was searching for what he wanted to play the truck began to shake and lurch from side to side my stepson yelled at me saying were rolling off the road thinking that I was out of gear and rolling backwards. I assurred him that we were in park and my foot was on the brake and my forward vision correlated that we were not rolling but were being pushed and rocked sideways. My stepsons ...