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Driver electrocuted after ignoring barricade and hitting wires downed in storm
PennLive.com ^
| 9 March A.D. 2018
| John Luciew
Posted on 03/09/2018 4:53:02 AM PST by lightman
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To: henkster
2005 sounds about right. I go every year and at my age the exact years on anything starts to get vague. But twelve years ago sounds right about the time.
To: raybbr
Inductive currents. You do not actually need to touch a high-voltage line to draw power from it.
Even a ring on a finger is capable of drawing power from a major distribution line - and from several yards away.
Every piece of wire in that car must have lit up in one instantaneous flash when he drove over the power line. The driver never felt a thing.
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posted on
03/09/2018 6:06:55 AM PST
by
flamberge
(What next?)
To: cyclotic
He may have driving slowly over the line thinking he could get past without a problem.
I have hit plenty of underground wires and gas lines due to incorrect marking. Hitting a gas line sure brings a lot of people in a hurry.
To: 2harddrive
If so, it’s operator failed at Dodging reality.
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posted on
03/09/2018 6:12:28 AM PST
by
SirLurkedalot
(10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
To: lightman
That is a thick cable. Fairly high voltage. The cable is burning holes in the asphalt. I've seen it melt concrete. The road, the car, and the tires are probably saturated with wet road salt. I don't think the tires are going to help much. Also, the car has huge openings in the Faraday cage with all that glass.
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posted on
03/09/2018 6:15:37 AM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Kill: NFL, Walmart, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
To: shelterguy
Yea, that wasn’t the only one I’ve hit either.
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posted on
03/09/2018 6:18:31 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
To: lightman
this is so wrong.
the guy should be given a second chance.
Don’t be a mean grump.
he didn’t think the law of electircity (sic) applied to him.
Etc. . . . . . . . Ad nauseam. / sarc
To: lightman
Must have been high tension wires - I’ve seen a downed wire arcing and jumping and banging away - nothing to fool with.
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:06:03 AM PST
by
trebb
(I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
To: lightman
How terrible. Pass on this story to others.
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:10:59 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
To: 2harddrive
Wow! Is that a Dodge truck? I think it's a Blazer.
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:14:59 AM PST
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
To: circlecity
My son went to that race and he got back to his car just before the storm hit. I was at the 81 500 and didn’t get back to the car in time.
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:16:06 AM PST
by
henkster
(Monsters from the Id.)
To: lightman
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:16:52 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: henkster
I would have been at both those races. I haven’t missed one since 1973.
To: TangoLimaSierra
Wow! Is that a Dodge truck? I think it's a Blazer. There's our winner!
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:18:16 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: exit82
EVERY WIRE IS A LIVE WIRE. Great advice considering that there are lots of live wires at FR.
:-)
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:27:36 AM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
To: lightman
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:52:40 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: RegulatorCountry
That officer was almost respected to death!
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posted on
03/09/2018 7:56:13 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: raybbr
That is only based upon an incidental contact with no wet surface.
If this was a curved, damaged, grounded-in-water, or crossed wire, it could have made contact in one OR MORE places on the vehicle and the entire vehicle became energized.
The caution about not stepping out of a vehicle and grounding it yourself is only good if your vehicle is in contact AND YOU AREN’T YET being electrocuted. LOL.
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posted on
03/09/2018 8:05:16 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: BlueLancer
>>Won’t make any difference ...
If he’s a Democrat, he will keep voting anyway ...<<
Very astute observation. Funny too!
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posted on
03/09/2018 8:10:18 AM PST
by
fortes fortuna juvat
( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
To: cyclotic
A vehicle operates as a Faraday cage for lightening or other forms of electricity.
The rubber on the road is just an unnecessary safety bonus.
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posted on
03/09/2018 8:18:49 AM PST
by
deadrock
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