In article et, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:13:43 +0100, wrote:

He may not have wanted to touch the line twice. It is also not clear
that the second contact involved the same part.

Looks to me that the second contact is his head rather than the raised arm
to steady himself for this first.

Could it be that a circuit breaker opened and auto reclosed that
quickly?

Seems a tad quick for an auto recloser.


I rather think that the current flow wasn't that much, well on the scale
of the power that the OHL can supply. Remember thats at 25 kV and matey
wasn't much of a load. Normally such a supply can shift around quite
heavy trains some 8 megawatts IIRC in the case of a Eurostar trainset...

Theres been a lot of debate over on UK Railway as to whether or not a
video such as depicted there should be used as a public info film to
warn of what can happen if you should touch those harmless looking
wires..

Course they still cook people to death like that tho not as dramatically
in parts of the USA still.

Anyways lets hope he's at peace now .. poor sod;(..
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Tony Sayer