So who's at fault when hitting power lines sagging to low?

My house is on a residential street, 25mph speed limit. One lost trucker knocked down the power line last year, nobody even bothered to search for him. Utility company said the wires probably just sag overtime and that's probably why the truck hit it.

 

You're golden! Keep rolling.

 

Not your fault, as you’re not responsible for a utility company failure. Say nothing. Delete this thread.

 

No so much technically as it is. I woulda called it in. Even if they are at fault for the lines being too low. Running means if someone had a camera it COULD come back on you. Especially if someone for example on oxygen died because of loss or power.

Unlikely but not a chance id take personally....

 

I thought about the risk of posting this but I think it's pretty minimal. I've never seen this discussed before and I figured it could be beneficial to other drivers. I have actually wondered about it before but it never happened to me until last week.

I'm not really into shirking responsibility if it puts others at risk. That said,If a transformer had blown or a pole went down I would've stopped immediately and dealt with the consequences.

Where this happened I'm not really worried about cameras.

Yeah, I made my choice and took a chance and it's water under the bridge now. I'll let the thread stand.

 

Oh im not trying to call ya out. Just pointing out you took a major risk. That said you owned it and didnt make an excuse. So that goes a long way.

 

If this happened in Michigan, the utilities are on the hook for damages below 18 feet by law FOR POWER LINESm all others it is 15.5. While the NESC standard is 15.5 feet, and I think all states have a minimum 15.5 feet from the highest point of the road surface to the lowest point of the wire for everything.

I had a driver who snagged a fiber line being put up on a pole across a road, and it looked like it was high enough, but it wasn't. So he snagged the wire, ripped down the pully and took the wire for a ride for a few miles before he saw the crap that he yanked down. The company doing the install work tried to recoup the loses but it didn't work, once they were told that they were doing an illegal install, that was it.

 

Keep going and pretend that you didn't see it but call it in on your anonymous second burner phone as a bystander in the interest of public safety. You don't want some Amish kid to ride by on his bicycle to touch it and get cooked. It has happened.

 

Very doubtful it was power line..,they’re the top wires 18’ft statutory in most places….most likely phone cable etc
Besides if you actually tore out power lines you’d have know it..,typically all hell breaks loose when they break etc
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