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Where did you learn this? Were they specifically teaching you want to do if a power line lands on your car? That seems like a pretty rare situation. Or was it about electric cars or busses?


Is power line landing on things all that rare? There's lots of power lines on poles in cities around the world. Also very strong winds like to down trees, which then sometimes down such powerlines.


I am from denmark, we have practically no power lines above ground except for the occational high voltage lines which they are also planning to bury. By 2040 it will only be allowed to have 400KV lines above ground.


I’m grade school. I am in Canada and almost all our power lines are above ground. Yes it was specific to if a power line landed on your car or even if it crashed beside your car and you had to get out.


In the US, most power lines are overhead. Downed power lines are common. Well over 100,000 incidents per year: https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-st...




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