Posted on 09/05/2022 7:34:00 AM PDT by montag813
by Samantha Foster | 24News
In a hilarous bit of irony last week, an electric vehicle needed some coal miners to get where it needed to go.
The vehicle broke down Friday near Mettiki Coal access road on US 48, in Tucker County, West Virginia, according to WBOY-TV.
A Facebook post from Randy Smith described the incident.
Smith is a Republican state senator who represents the region where the incident took place, according to the West Virginia state Legislature website. He’s also the safety coordinator at Mettiki Coal, his Facebook page states.
“Some days are just better than others,” Smith wrote before launching into the tale.
“Today at our mine off Corridor H an electric car from DC ran out of battery at the road entrance to the mine. Someone called one of our foreman and told him a car was broke down in the middle of our haul road,” he wrote.
The foreman learned the car’s passengers were en route from Washington, D.C., to the Tucker County town of Davis, Smith wrote. Davis is about 170 miles west of D.C.
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I have driven from the DC area to Davis,WV. The roads are mountainous and probably sucked the battery dry.
Love it!
Yep. Hook her up to a 440V line in the mine and she will charge right up!
The crew should have pushed the car off the road rather than to the coal mine to recharge. Their loyalty was to themselves and their employer, not to the owner of the vehicle, and their job was therefore to clear the road. They should have told the idiot driver to walk to town to get a bucket of electricity.
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