A few meters probably made the difference between life and death: On Monday in Roitham (Upper Austria), a passer-by was standing right in the middle when a concrete pole hit the ground directly to her right and downed high-voltage lines came crashing down. to her left. The woman survived the accident unharmed.
What exactly had happened? “A garbage truck attempted to reverse into the street and apparently missed the pylon of a power line,” said Philip Kathrein, chief of operations at Roitham Fire Brigade. At that moment, the pensioner was standing in front of the waste glass containers to which she had driven in her car. The concrete mast fell over and with it parts of the high-voltage line.
“Woman was lucky several times”
“The woman was lucky several times that she was not hit by the mast or the cables – and the power went out due to a direct short circuit,” says Kathrein. “She took it all very calmly. Maybe she didn’t realize how lucky she was at first.’
Power outage and railway closure
The accident, which involved all the Guardian Angels at work, also caused brief power cuts in parts of Roitham and the adjacent railway line was closed to freight trains for about two hours.
After the incident, operations manager Kathrein appealed: “If such accidents happen, keep your distance. The other passers-by somewhat underestimate the danger that the high-voltage line can pose if the conductor cables are on the ground.”
Source: Krone
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