Case of the speeding wheelie bin

David Jones said he was dumbfounded and had to get his camera out to take photos when he noticed the Holden Commodore towing a wheelie bin as it overtook his mate's vehicle on the Stuart Highway, south of Katherine, Australia on Wednesday.

"We thought it was hilarious," he said. "It was an 80kmh zone and she just flew past us. But then the bin started to wobble and lost a tyre.



"It was dragging along for ages and left marks all over the road. There were bits of rubbish flying everywhere. She then obviously realised something was wrong and pulled over."

Mr Jones, 32, a former Territorian who moved to Sydney last year, was on a road trip with friends to Darwin when they saw the wheelie bin fiasco.



"Who knows what she was doing, maybe it was a prank," he said. "But we had only passed a rubbish dump sign moments earlier so maybe she had just been to the dump."

He said it is definitely one of those unique things that would only be seen in the Territory.