"It is not normal for a person to suffer a high voltage electric shock and a fall from more than eight metres and be alive." But the sixteen-year-old girl was alive. She regained consciousness as emergency services were arriving after 4am and asked the police: "Have you ever seen anything like this?"
She had got onto the overhead power line through a gap in a fence in order to take a selfie. She came into contact with the cable, was electrocuted and fell the eight metres. Friends called 112 and moved her to the side of the track. They could hardly believe she was alive and nor could the emergency teams. One said: "You could see the large burn, but she was awake and talking."
The shock entered a hand and exited through one of her calves. As well as burns, she suffered fractures. For now, she is in intensive care at Son Espases Hospital and, as a police officer put it, "very lucky to be able to tell her tale".
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Organ WelshmanThank you it was intentional, though not to offend. As Ricky Jervais said , just because you are offended doesn't mean you are right. Regarding the accident, I am truly shocked ( surprised, bewildered) that in 2025 a 16 year old does not know the danger of the electric lines which power the railway and furthermore is climbing over them to take a selfie at 4am, the middle of the night. The obvious question has to be why. Mentally unstable, drink, drugs, whatever it is this behaviour is not normal, even for a teenager.
Organ WelshmanI like people like you who get direct to the point. Alternatively, you could try to be a bit more subtle. Whatever.
Tranq, I find your use of the word current in your text quite offensive given the nature of the incident!
tranq tranquerIndeed, some may.
Richard PearsonI know that like me you use irony and sarcasm but some will consider that comment tripping the switch of indignation in the current climate .
to say this was PURE STUPIDITY IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT...!!!! I could say something else but i don't think you would print it...!!! so i will leave that To Your imagaination...!!!!
Shocking !!
Miracle, stupidity more like it.