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Plus, momentum alone should have pulled the car well past the wires. Not sure what the actual story was here.””””””
Once that much juice touched his vehicle it would have wiped out all electrical components in the vehicle and it would stop immediately.
Each year I go to a seminar for people who dig in the dirt put on by the utility companies. They show pictures of accidents that happen when excavators hit gas or electric lines. This guy knew better than to drive over hot wires. We all make mistakes but this could have easily been avoided.
An electrical shock would cause the brakes to seize and make the car jolt to a stop?
I was on a jobsite once when a guy who I worked with punched through a gas main with a power post hole digger.
No fire but gave us all a huge scare. The gas line was 50 feet from where it was supposed to be and 2 feet less submerged.
It was a horrible jobsite. A couple days later, a plumber lit a couple condo’s on fire sweating pipe.