Think you are having a bad day? Electrocution kills 28 wedding guests in India!
14 May 2010, 10:31 AM
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Think you are having a bad day? Electrocution kills 28 wedding guests in India!
Jesus H christ!! WTF? 
Police in India say 28 people have been killed after a bus touched a high-voltage electricity cable and caught fire.
Many of the victims in the crash in Mandla in Madhya Pradesh were women
The passengers are believed to have been guests returning from a wedding.
It is believed the fire started when a steel cupboard tied to the vehicle's roof scraped the power line.
Police officer Ram Pyari Dhurwey said the accident occurred in Mandla district in the central Madhya Pradesh state.
The United News of India agency said three children and 12 women were among those killed on the bus, which was carrying 32 people.
Police chief K.K. Sharma told AFP: "There was a metal almirah (cabinet) on top of the bus which came in contact with a high-voltage power cable, resulting in the electrocution of 28 of the wedding guests."
It is the second accident in India in as many days.
At least 15 people were killed in eastern Bihar state on Thursday when a live power cable fell on their bus.
Police in India say 28 people have been killed after a bus touched a high-voltage electricity cable and caught fire.
Many of the victims in the crash in Mandla in Madhya Pradesh were women
The passengers are believed to have been guests returning from a wedding.
It is believed the fire started when a steel cupboard tied to the vehicle's roof scraped the power line.
Police officer Ram Pyari Dhurwey said the accident occurred in Mandla district in the central Madhya Pradesh state.
The United News of India agency said three children and 12 women were among those killed on the bus, which was carrying 32 people.
Police chief K.K. Sharma told AFP: "There was a metal almirah (cabinet) on top of the bus which came in contact with a high-voltage power cable, resulting in the electrocution of 28 of the wedding guests."
It is the second accident in India in as many days.
At least 15 people were killed in eastern Bihar state on Thursday when a live power cable fell on their bus.
14 May 2010, 10:34 AM
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Bloomin heck, that is awful
I had no idea that could actually happen. After seeing the Top Gear test where Hammond sat inside a Golf and was zapped with many thousands of volts and was fine. The metal shell around the vehicle is meant to conduct the current into the ground and away from the people inside. I wonder if the bus was in contact with more than one thing to create a circuit
I had no idea that could actually happen. After seeing the Top Gear test where Hammond sat inside a Golf and was zapped with many thousands of volts and was fine. The metal shell around the vehicle is meant to conduct the current into the ground and away from the people inside. I wonder if the bus was in contact with more than one thing to create a circuit
14 May 2010, 10:46 AM
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I didn't either. All I can imagine is that a few milliseconds of controlled 'lightening' (as the Hamster demonstrated) behaves very differently to a national grids 400,000v flowing through a vehicle in an uncontrolled way.
There would be plenty of time for the voltage to break down what ever in needed to and zap the occupants on it's way down to earth.
Must have been an awful thing to witness.
There would be plenty of time for the voltage to break down what ever in needed to and zap the occupants on it's way down to earth.
Must have been an awful thing to witness.
14 May 2010, 11:06 AM
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Yeah, that is not something I would have wanted to see. I hate the Health and Safety culture we have the UK, we have gone too far. However, you can see what happens when there is too little
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