【Haichuan Safety Discussion】Has your cable ever been hit by a truck?

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Firstly, it is recommended to create a series titled 【Everyone Talks About Safety in SeaChuan】. This series would cover accidents that occur today; such accidents do happen from time to time on construction sites and factories. Everyone is invited to share if they have experienced similar incidents and discuss how to prevent them. ———————– News on the front page—Reported by West China City Daily (Reporter: Wu Bingqing, Photos provided by the reporter) On the morning of the 10th, residents of a residential complex on GaoShengQiao North Street in Chengdu were shocked by what they saw at the entrance of the complex: a car had its front end hooked onto a cable, with all four wheels in the air, performing some sort of \"stunt\". At around 9:40 a.m., the reporter arrived at the scene. The truck was upside down, hanging from overhead cables, with its four wheels in the air and tilted at 45 degrees to the ground. Not far in front of the car, a pole about 6 meters tall had been cut in half and lay across the road; the more than a dozen black cables attached to the top of the pole had also been pulled to the other side of the street. As the area is mainly residential complexes, traffic congestion occurs here during peak working hours; traffic police have been directing traffic here since just after 7 a.m. According to residents of the community, around 4:30 a.m., there was a loud noise on the road; when they went outside to take a look, they saw that the utility pole had broken and the car had become trapped under it. ”Witnesses said the driver was a middle-aged man who “jumped out of the driver’s seat without being injured.” ” At around 9:45 a.m., the truck was \"rescued\" and the cables were returned to their original positions, allowing road traffic to resume normal operation. The reporter noted that the cargo compartment of the truck hanging in the air was 1.65 meters high. “Under normal driving conditions, it shouldn’t be possible to engage these wires. ”Some residents speculated that it might have been a cable that fell, and the truck didn’t notice it when it passed by, thus getting caught in it. As for whether the cable fell down because of the excessive weight that crushed the pole, or whether the pole was struck causing the cable to fall, the police are currently investigating.