Loading video...

Appears in Newsflare picks
02:12

Terrifying moment electricity pylons are blown onto car during Thai storm

Content Partner Cover Image
Content Partner Profile Image
Uploaded by a Newsflare content partner

Buy video

This was the terrifying moment a row of electricity pylons are blown over like dominoes onto a car during a storm.

Motorist Fanida Khaolueng was driving to work when the wind and rain battered the Andaman coast in Krabi, southern Thailand yesterday (August 29) morning.

Dashcam footage from just before 10 am shows how she was travelling cautiously through the bad weather keeping the car at a steady speed to avoid accidents.

But strong winds suddenly blew over a concrete electricity post which dragged down 11 others, causing the high voltage wires to plunge directly on her vehicle smashing the windscreen.

Fanida miraculously survived and managed to crawl from the wreckage before calling the emergency services.

Fanida said: ''I thought I was going to die. I just saw the posts falling on my car. I had no time to react. I just screamed and closed my eyes.

''But I opened them again and I was still alive. I jumped out of the car and ran away as fast as I could because I was afraid of the electricity.''

Officials said 12 posts had been blown over in the accident, causing a blackout in the area and the traffic for hours.

They said that the cables were not severed, which managed to prevent the current passing through to Fanida's car.

Officers from the Provincial Electricity Authority rushed to the scene and spent the whole day to successfully reinstalling the electricity posts before dark.

Wuttichai Thamsiri, Director of Khlong Thom Provincial Electricity Authority, said that the heavy rain had softened the ground, causing the poles to slide out and fall.

He said: ''The reason that the electricity poles fell is because of the constant rainstorm. One of them started sliding out and dragged the others down as well because they were all joined together with big cables.

''We urgently arrived with cranes and lots of equipment and tried to solve the problem as quickly as we could. The authority will also pay compensation to the car owner and residents who were affected by the incident.''

Categories

Tags

From the blog

Stories not Stock: 3 Reasons Why You Should Use UGC Instead of Stock Video

Video content is an essential part of a brand’s marketing strategy, and while stock footage has been a reliable go-to in the past, forward-thinking companies are looking to user-generated content for their video needs.

View post
Content Partner Cover Image
Content Partner Profile Image
Uploaded by a Newsflare content partner

Buy video