Driving along this road, the way you do, I heard a loud bang, but before
I had time to say to myself 'watheflipwassat?' I got an idea what it was
cos a load of overhead electrical cables stopped being overhead and
commenced to do a lot of sparking and stuff on the road on front of me.

I had heart failure. Almost.

Being a top notch sparky, i am well aware of what's rushing through them
overhead lines when they're overhead and I have to tell you that the idea
of it rushing through my van and by default, me, made my blood run cold.

I stopped the van before I hit the writhing flashing cables but I was
stuffed. No way forward and no way to tell what was behind. And no way of
knowing if any more hot wires were heading vanwards.

Luckily, before the lights went out, I spotted a way through and hit the
gas pedal, shot clear, parked up and went back for a nose.

The white van that had been following me was parked at ninety degrees
across the road with it's wrecked front end around the stump of a cable
carrying pole that now lay in someone's garden. In bringing down the pole,
he naturally, brought down all the cables. And nearly dropped them on top
of me.

Lord alone knows what happened but I feel just a tad lucky tonight

Mick the Merciless wrote:

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:04:22 +0000, Enzo Matrix wrote:

I can say that he was awake and talking to people but he never made any
attempt to get out of the van. Having said that, the ambulance guys were
not in any hurry to get him out. Having said that (2 - the sequel), a fire
engine raced the wrong way from the scene before turning back towards the
incident. Must have been using the sat-nav. ;-)

Or thrown away. Not that it came to that, or anywhere near it. I thought
that there was a very real possibility of me being trapped inside a
Faradays cage kind of thing, my van elecrified but me safe on the inside,
unable to get out.

Were you somewhere in Northants-ish? Only I heard on the radio of a similar
incident closing a road somewhere in the area.

Mick the Merciless wrote:

"Mick the Merciless" wrote

What a terrible experience, Mick. Glad you're okay.
I'd make you a narsecuppatea if I was anywhere near close by......

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:03:26 +0000, Martin Bulmer wrote:

South Hampshire. In the village of Fair Oak near Winchester.

"Kiwi Gill" wrote in message news:fi7qb2$rm7$1@aioe.org...

Wow what a frightening experience for you :(
I'm glad you're alright Mick. If I was nearby I'd buy you a big jammy
doughnut.

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:33:20 +0000, Gary Jackson wrote:

I tend to look on the brighter side and thank my guardian leprechaun that
it didn't.

"Carol" btinternet.com> wrote

That would go very nicely with my cup of tea ;-)