Warning after 'lapse in judgement' leaves caravanners stranded for three hours

Even the simplest of mistakes can set travellers back while journeying through the outback, and one married couple learned this the hard way after a recent caravan mistake left them on their backs, covered in red dirt for almost three hours.

Sydney couple Tim and Karen* were travelling up to Cape York, Queensland, in a convoy of tourists when they pulled over to refuel just 200 kilometres away from their destination at Bramwell Roadhouse last week. However, Karen told Yahoo News that a "momentary lapse of judgment" resulted in their long-range diesel fuel tank being filled with unleaded petrol.

"The initial feeling was...horrified," Karen told Yahoo. "It was just a momentary lapse in judgment."

The couple, their 12 travel compa

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