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So..I was going to write about the nice evening I had out in the city with my shiny shiny first paycheck. But then...
I was just leaving the train station to walk home when I heard loud whooping. I realised it was coming from a speeding car...just as it hit the powerpole at the front of the station! (about 100m away) Which then fell over! Onto the car! Bringing down a whole bunch of cabling in a giant shower of sparks!
I stood there for a while going OMG until other people's movements prompted me to check on the driver(*), who seemed fine in an angry shouty sort of way. When someone asked if the police had been called it was pointed out they were two cars away (traffic had stopped at this point), possibly not a coincidence.
A policeman came out and started shouting "YOU, STAY IN THE CAR. YOU, STEP AWAY FROM THE CAR". The woman trying to calm down the guy in the car protested until the policeman pointed out that there were live power lines hanging at about head height onto and around the car.
At this point I decided it was probably a good idea to go home :)
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mandragora2003, I wasn't kidding when I said I'd suck in an emergency
I was just leaving the train station to walk home when I heard loud whooping. I realised it was coming from a speeding car...just as it hit the powerpole at the front of the station! (about 100m away) Which then fell over! Onto the car! Bringing down a whole bunch of cabling in a giant shower of sparks!
I stood there for a while going OMG until other people's movements prompted me to check on the driver(*), who seemed fine in an angry shouty sort of way. When someone asked if the police had been called it was pointed out they were two cars away (traffic had stopped at this point), possibly not a coincidence.
A policeman came out and started shouting "YOU, STAY IN THE CAR. YOU, STEP AWAY FROM THE CAR". The woman trying to calm down the guy in the car protested until the policeman pointed out that there were live power lines hanging at about head height onto and around the car.
At this point I decided it was probably a good idea to go home :)
(*)See,
mandragora2003, I wasn't kidding when I said I'd suck in an emergency
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Theorhetically, it could have broken the cable, such that the live side was still on the next power, and thus the downstream unenergized cable thuds to the ground. Except, in that section, a device called a recloser, which joins multiple segments of the network together, will realise there is no power in one section, and re-energize it several seconds later from another feeder trunk, making *both* sides of the power line live.
Mmm unexpectedly dangerous.
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Huh.
I am now obscurely glad that it is all a fairly long way away :)
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Hooray for underground power...
Glad you weren't hurt. That would have been incredibly horrible; one stay in ICU is enough for anyone!
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