I agree. Unless he actually stopped on wire it should have not done anything.
Plus, momentum alone should have pulled the car well past the wires. Not sure what the actual story was here.
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.
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.