mike64
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I was in the garage with my laptop computer, actually getting ready to post to iboats this afternoon when I heard a crash. I ran to the road in time to see a car that had just run into the tie wires of a power pole across the street, causing it to snap at the top. I was just in time to see the top of the pole fall on the car, which made a transformer explode bright white-green at another pole, just to the left of me.
As I was running down my driveway I hit 911. They said there was rescue on the way, and asked to see if the person was alright. I went as close as I could-- there were loose power lines on the car- the top of the power pole was dangling right over the hood of her car. I could barely see her through the windshield but called out to ask her if she was alright and saw her eyes were open and she seemed conscious.
I went to the backyard where my wife and kids were and told them to go inside, power lines were down.
when fire & rescue got there they waited around 45 minutes until the electric utility guys came by and did their thing. That's got to be the worst case scenario for a rescue guy...no idea how bad an accident victim is, but you can't get near them. Fortunately the woman didn't seem too badly hurt. They strapped her on a stretcher and secured her head, precaution hopefully.
Why she went so out of control was a lot of speculation with the neighbors who came by to see what was going on. We're on a road that's an artery, 40 mph but around the bend we live on, people fly through doing 50 or more. We're pretty far back from the road, fortunately. Guesses from the neighbors-- she was going too fast and paying too much attention to her cell,or maybe epileptic fit. Who knows. There's a path of wreckage, mostly street signs (showing there's a bend in the road, Caution!) that she took out. The woman also obliterated our mailbox (fortunately my wife already got the mail, and she was NOT in the wrong place at the wrong time).
Hope the woman's ok. We already have our power back, they rerouted it somehow, even as they replace the power pole. Tomorrow I got a mailbox pole to replace. Nieghbors tell me this happens once every 10 years. We've been here 3.
As I was running down my driveway I hit 911. They said there was rescue on the way, and asked to see if the person was alright. I went as close as I could-- there were loose power lines on the car- the top of the power pole was dangling right over the hood of her car. I could barely see her through the windshield but called out to ask her if she was alright and saw her eyes were open and she seemed conscious.
I went to the backyard where my wife and kids were and told them to go inside, power lines were down.
when fire & rescue got there they waited around 45 minutes until the electric utility guys came by and did their thing. That's got to be the worst case scenario for a rescue guy...no idea how bad an accident victim is, but you can't get near them. Fortunately the woman didn't seem too badly hurt. They strapped her on a stretcher and secured her head, precaution hopefully.
Why she went so out of control was a lot of speculation with the neighbors who came by to see what was going on. We're on a road that's an artery, 40 mph but around the bend we live on, people fly through doing 50 or more. We're pretty far back from the road, fortunately. Guesses from the neighbors-- she was going too fast and paying too much attention to her cell,or maybe epileptic fit. Who knows. There's a path of wreckage, mostly street signs (showing there's a bend in the road, Caution!) that she took out. The woman also obliterated our mailbox (fortunately my wife already got the mail, and she was NOT in the wrong place at the wrong time).
Hope the woman's ok. We already have our power back, they rerouted it somehow, even as they replace the power pole. Tomorrow I got a mailbox pole to replace. Nieghbors tell me this happens once every 10 years. We've been here 3.
