Need Help Disputing Accident

I worked in the CATV industry for over 6 years. Trust me nobody cares except your safety director. Trucks rip down lines everyday. There's to many variables that can cause a line to hang low. Was it hot? windy? did a bigger object catch it first? They get ripped down you just replace it and move on. Now if it's plant (hard jacketed) it's still not your fault if its under 14' but that will bring more attention for sure.

Sucks to hear your getting a ding for something that happens hundreds of times a day.

 

Yes. There called the NEC. And the minimum height for a street is 14 feet.

 

Preventable/nonpreventable has nothing to do with who's fault it is.

It's about whether or not reasonable steps could have been taken to avoid a situation.

If a wire is visible and a person drives under it not knowing if it is going to clear their trailer, that is a preventable situation.

 

yeah, i couldn't remember the height cap. i know that it has been said, that if an overpass isn't marked, it is "assumed to be" 14 feet high.

but i nary want to "assume" that..!!

 

Absolutely. Just because its "suppose" to be a certain height don't mean it is.