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High Voltage wreck on Monday
web posted January 3, 2006
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TRENTON – A local woman had a rather electrifying crash while driving south on Highway 25 near Trenton when her car hydroplaned and skidded off the northbound side of the road into a SCE&G power substation. Trenton Firemen arrived on the scene a short time later but could not enter the scene due to the risk of electrocution. SCE&G workers were summoned to the scene by Firemen and asked dispatchers to tell them to, “step it up.”

The woman, who was driving the Honda Civic, was uninjured, but was “pretty shaken up” Edgefield County Deputy Shirley Key said. “She (the driver) was already out of the car when we got here,” Trenton Fireman (and Town Councilman) Keith Sexton said. As the rain continued to fall and lighting streaked across the sky, Mr. Sexton commented, “This is not the place you want to be right now.”

The car took out several feet of the fence surrounding the high voltage area before coming to rest just inches away from a main switching station. “If she had hit that it would have been all over,” one firefighter said.  A SCE&G supervisor on the scene stated they did not intend to shut the power to the station off to remove the car saying he felt the car could be pulled back under the fence. Firefighters left the scene once it was determined to be secure and the South Carolina Highway Patrol took over traffic and safety control.

The car was heavily damaged. Possible charges of driving too fast for conditions were said to be pending the outcome of the investigation.
 

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