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Village of Ridgewood dump truck driver escaped possible electrocution by jumping from his vehicle
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The driver of a Village of Ridgewood owned & operated dump truck escaped possible electrocution by jumping from his vehicle after it became completely entangled in set of high voltage electric wires on Tuesday, 01/26 at approximately 12:30 AM. The truck’s raised dump bed had knocked the wires down as the driver was dumping a load of snow removed from downtown streets in the Graydon Pool parking lot on Linwood Avenue at Northern Parkway in Ridgewood.
Ridgewood PD, FD, and Emergency Services units responded to the scene. A utility pole was snapped in two after the truck hit the wires. A PSE&G crew was called to the scene to temporarily disconnect electric service to the pool facility until the snapped pole can be replaced
Stupidity on several counts….#1 Knocking over the wires in the first place…How long have we been dumping snow there? 100 Years? How about a visual b4 off loading? #2 why is gods name would you GET OUT of the truck after you hit high voltage wires??? the truck is grounded via its tires. Who ever was driving this thing needs walking papers…driving 101 FAILED, common sense 101 FAILED.
Some of these guys were working 24 hours straight to remove the snow. Maybe that was part of the problem.
First off the driver did what the fire department instructed him to do
That wire comes down every season.
Yea, the fire dept. instructed him – RFD – “saved another basement.”