Student Driver Takes Out Power Lines

well let's see...school 1000% liable..

student will just be re-trained, but most likely will have an accident on his (or her) record now, great job opportunities there

instructor most likely fired, or suspended, or relegated to classroom training or yard skills, for a long, long time.

would have been the instructors JOB/RESPONSIBILITY to help look out for such things.

 

Any one of us can hit low power lines.
They should have been higher and now when they fix them they will be up where they belong.

 

not if they only have 10 foot ladders....lol...jus' sayin'.....

 

cuz we all know, the ladders are at least 11 feet......

 

Homeowner Don Lowe said he had remarked to his wife that the utility lines looked a little low after watching a local garbage truck strike them earlier in the day.

 

There's your smoking gun, the garbage dude.

 

but too, the possibility still exists that those power lines were low then and the garbage truck was not responsible for it. something caused them to be lower...maybe a lineman was installing new lines, or repairing older ones, and he/she did not hang them up high enough.

i still believe the driving instructor should have been paying attention to all of his surroundings, much like a driver has to. he (the instructor) has a brake in the passenger side, usually a trolly brake plumbed into the system.

personally, i think that instructor will catch heck for this happening.

 

Well that's a lesson he/she learned the hard way and will probably never forget.

 

The garbage truck didn't pull the wires down. The student was driving a big truck.

Typically, the low lines in a neighborhood are cable TV lines. Those guys are not as diligent as the power and light company linemen.

Also, simple age can make lines sag. They get tight and stretch in winter, then sag in summer.

 

Lines were recently hung fiber optics and were too low. That said anyone that has driven should of observed the low lines. In court, Fiber Optics company should eat the bill even though the truck had its head up its a.....