Trucker pulls down power lines in East Pattaya

PATTAYA:--A careless truck driver knocked out electricity in East Pattaya when the crane he was hauling snagged power lines and pulled down two utility poles.

 

Chuchart Topai, the 45-year-old driver of the Samut Prakan-registered Isuzu six-wheeler, admitted he was unfamiliar with Pattaya and drove down Sukhumvit Soi 33 without realizing his crane was too tall for the power lines there.

 

Moving at normal speed, Topai hit the wires and continued on, causing one power pole to topple into the road and a second to lean badly.

 

The Provincial Electricity Authority rushed to the scene and closed the road, then took several hours to install new power poles and rewire the lines.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-09-21

You have to hand it to The Provincial Electricity Authority,they do  get the electric back on pretty quickly after these type of events...maybe if the wire where buried underground there would be less events ?

25 minutes ago, johng said:

You have to hand it to The Provincial Electricity Authority,they do  get the electric back on pretty quickly after these type of events...maybe if the wire where buried underground there would be less events ?

Its a cultural barrier thing twixt feet & electric .. My bird won't walk anywhere near extension leads and cables on the floor .. 

2 minutes ago, Kim J said:

When Pattaya floods you would be running the risk of electrocution.

That already happens !!!   

if ( big if ) they work to internationally agreed standards there should

be no problems with buried cables.. except when you need to dig them up ?

 

Quote

 

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down

Helpless people on subway trains
Scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

 

A Thai travelling at normal speed?  Surprised he only pulled two posts down!

It was the poorly installed low hanging wires that caused it, not the crane truck, that manages to drive down all other streets. I was nearly decapitated doing 80 kmh on the highway 2 up on my motorcycle by a low cable caught by a medium sized delivery truck crossing the road. It hit my windscreen, my helmet visor, and snapped my neck back. A few cms lower, and I would not be able to see my keyboard today.