Posted on 03/09/2018 4:53:02 AM PST by lightman
A driver in New Jersey made a fatal mistake when he ignored a road closed barricade Thursday morning and drove on, only to run over live electrical wires downed by this week's nor'easter storm.
As 6ABC in Philly reports, the driver's SUV erupted into flames in on Summit Avenue and Route 208 in Franklin Lakes just before 9 a.m., as the vehicle hit those live wires.
In fact, the inferno was so bad, the driver had not been positively identified as of last reports.
Fire totally gutted the vehicle, and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
The investigation continues.
Ping
Heard this yesterday. Oops!
Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner !!!
Wow! Is that a Dodge truck?
Anthony Gonzalez, 40-year-old Wanaque resident
Sounds like the sort of thing a BMW driver would do.
Considering this was NJ, the odds are he was a democrat, so in that case no loss.
Won't make any difference ...
If he's a Democrat, he will keep voting anyway ...
“He worked as an electrician for 18 years and was employed in New York City.”
Ya can’t make this stuff up!
Sort of hard to tell from what’s left but it looks like a Chevy Traverse from the rear side windows, the size and that cross bar on the front grille. But, it could be a Dodge too I guess, one of those smaller car based CUV’s, basically a fancy minivan designed to look like an SUV. Had at least two sunroofs, whatever it was.
I was driving home from the Indy 500 one year and a tornado went through the southside of Indy just minutes before I arrived. The place was a shambles and debris all over the roads. As I was driving trying to find an unblocked road, I saw at the last second a downed power line handing over the road at windshield level. I stopped just in time. I got out of the car and was going to toss my rubber floor mat over the line to make it more visible so no driver would accidentally drive into it. Right then a cop shows up. He gets out of his car and walks over and reaches to grab the cable and pull it out of the way. I screamed at him “Stop! Don’t do that! That’s a live power line”. He jerked back when he realized what I said just inches from the line. The he gets all mad a me for being there I guess and yelling at him. I probably saved his life and he takes an attitude because he didn’t get to be one in charge. Oh well.
He was more worried about you making him look stupid than grateful to you for saving his life. You didn’t respect his authoritah.
Pretty much blows that whole “Faraday Cage” thing out of the water.
I would have thought that the tires on the truck would have insulated him. I’ve read stories where people have done that and were told to stay in the vehicle and not to step out on the ground.
Crane electrocution, not even touching powerline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwftUYkOX0Y
watch the whole video.
I’ve driven over live wires before with no effect. (not on purpose. It was minutes after the wire fell and I didn’t see it until after)
But this one looks like it may have been an exposed wire the may have snagged the bottom of the car.
I would guess that had it just been rubber tires making contact, it would be OK.
“Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner !!!”...
You want that “extra crispy”?
Depends on voltage. Watch video I posted.
Really? That's mind-boggling. The stupid is strong with this one.
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