Truck drags cables and destroys poles in Providencia: there are 6 injured | National



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A traffic accident starred a truck during the morning of this Thursday in Providencia.

It is a large vehicle that circulated through Pedro de Valdivia with Bustos, which dragged cables power lines.

The situation did not end there as he also took a transformer with him, which generated a electric shut down in the sector, and also destroyed some poles.

The fact left six woundedFive of them are Venezuelan citizens who were waiting to do paperwork outside of their country’s embassy. The other injured, meanwhile, is a policeman who was in a sentry box.

All six resulted with wounds of varying degrees and they were cared for on the spot.

One of the injured Venezuelans, Harry Núñez, indicated that he and his compatriots were injured by falling after trying to flee as quickly as possible to see how the cables fell.

Captain Danilo Vaunik pointed out that according to the truck driver, who was heading to the Líder supermarket located meters from the place, met the size regulation. He added that for this reason he passed through the sector every day.

Given this, it is presumed that low cable tension could have caused the fact.

Regarding the power cut, Enel reported that it initially affected 5,100 clients from Providencia and Ñuñoa, who have progressively recovered service and 1,700 are still without service after 10:00.

“Enel Distribución does not have unused cables in its concession area, due to the risk that these would present if they were energized. When anomalous situations of cables of telecommunications companies are detected, they are informed for their withdrawal. The existence of these disused cables, often at low altitude, generates damage to electrical infrastructure, when vehicles with high loads hook these cables and end up dragging and breaking distribution poles, leaving a large number of customers without supply “, added the company.



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