'When working on overhead wires the man sustained an electrocution and fell. He stumbled across the roadway and was unfortunately knocked over by a vehicle.'
The scene in which a man working on overhead wires was shocked and then killed by a car in the Bluff, south of Durban, on Wednesday.A 41-year-old man was badly shocked while working on overhead wires and then died when he was knocked over by a vehicle in the Bluff, south of Durban, on Wednesday.
Despite continuous efforts by advanced life support paramedics to resuscitate the victim he succumbed to his injuries, said Rescue Care's Ceron Meadows. "When working on overhead wires the man sustained an electrocution and fell. He stumbled across the roadway and was unfortunately knocked over by a vehicle."
She said the man, a contract electrical worker, had extensive burns plus injuries from being knocked over.
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