Driver suffers severe shock
A Christchurch truck driver suffered a severe electric shock in a freak accident yesterday morning.
Mr S. Simpson was carting shingle at the British Pavements tip in Miners Road, near Paparua Prison, when the raised tray of his truck became entangled in high tension power wires. “It was all right until he stepped out of the truck, and then ‘wham’,” a St John Ambulance spokesman said.
The shock knocked Mr Simpson unconscious and hurled him several feet from the truck.
The injured man was treated at the scene by an accident emergency team doctor, before he was taken to Christchurch Hospital. His condition was not available last evening, but he was not believed to bo seriously ill.
Ambulancemen said Mr Simpson had been insulated from the current by the truck tyres while he was in the driver’s seat. “He must have been still touching metal when his feet touched the ground, but fortunately the shock threw him away from the truck. That is what saved him,” the spokesman said.
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