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Tangled Trash Truck Pulls Power Lines Down
June 20, 2013
About two dozen Gulf Power company customers lost power early this morning after a garbage truck became tangled in power lines.
The Florida Highway Patrol said 64-year old Kenneth Sunday of Pensacola was backing the garbage truck out of a driveway in the 1700 block of Johnson Avenue about 2:35 a.m. when the top of the truck caught a low hanging power line. The line became tangled up on the truck, pulling a utility pole out of the ground and snapping it in half as the truck continued to move.
Sunday was not injured, and he was not charged by the FHP.
Reader-submitted photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Tangled Trash Truck Pulls Power Lines Down”
Does not matter if they are new or old trucks. None can be taller than 13 feet, six inches while underway.
Sometimes the operator of these front fork dumpster trucks get in a hurry and move when the dumpster dumping forks are not in the down postition.
Pensacola doesn’t have the new gas trucks. Our trucks come out of Milton which has not changed over yet.
This is a dumpster truck they start rolling at about midnight,notice the lift.If you look close you will see a row of mailboxes at this location there is a dumpster at the end of this driveway that these residents share,there is no turn around its a dead in,that’s why he backed out.
If it is one of the newer natural gas trucks, they are taller than the old trucks. There have been a few times that I have heard of them hitting low lines with the new trucks.
in the picture I see a “waste management” truck. Maybe the guy was on his way to work? Do garbage truck drivers take their vehicles home with them? It stated he was back out of a driveway, I’ve never seen garbage men pull up in a driveway to get trash (if that is part of their protocol I am unaware of it, I only know what I see when the trucks are in my neighborhood)
Wonder which garbage Co. Would be out at this time of the morning?