What a shambles! A Taiwan Power Company employee who was repairing an overhead electricity line is suspected to have caused an electricity cable to smolder and catch fire due to a momentary lapse of concentration. Foam was sprayed to put out the fire, but a passing scooter rider slid over in the foam and rammed into a passenger car in front of it. Fortunately the scooter rider only sustained minor injuries and a major accident was averted.
At around 10am on the morning of Monday last week, a Taiwan Power Company employee who was repairing an electricity cable at the intersection of Provincial Highway No 1 and Damei Road in Yunlin County’s Cihtong Township is suspected to have accidentally caused a cable to catch fire. The worker made an emergency call to Yunlin County Fire Department’s Cihtong Township dispatch center, which immediately extinguished the fire. The firefighters could not have anticipated that the foam-covered road would cause a scooter rider surnamed Lin who did not notice it to slide over and crash into a passenger car waiting at a set of traffic lights in front of him.
After being sent to hospital, Lin was found to have sustained only light grazes. Police sealed off the area and assisted by directing traffic away from the scene. The precise cause of the incident is yet to be confirmed.
Photo: Liao Shu-ling, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報記廖淑玲
(Liberty Times, translated by Edward Jones)
有夠烏龍!台電人員維修電線桿線路,疑因一時不慎引發電線悶燒,潑灑粉沫滅火時卻又造成一名路過的機車騎士滑倒衝撞前方自小客車,所幸機車騎士僅是輕傷,未醞成重大事故。
上週一上午十點左右,台電人員在台一線與雲林縣莿桐鄉大美路口維修線路,疑不小心引發電線悶燒,經通報莿桐消防分隊搶救後及時滅火,未料滿地粉沫卻造成一名林姓機車騎士未注意滑倒,衝撞前方一輛停等紅燈的自小客車。
林姓機車騎士經送醫後只是輕微擦傷並無大礙,現場由警方封鎖並協助疏導交通,避免造成壅塞,至於確切肇事原因尚待進一步釐清。
(自由時報記者廖淑玲)
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