A YouTube video showing a woman falling as a live power line sizzles nearby. (Caution: Russian profanity 18+)
Those Russian dashcams are at it again!
A woman crossing the street in Biisk, a Siberian town located south of Novosibirsk, was captured having a harrowing moment recently when electric sparks surrounded her on the road.
The woman was nearly electrocuted after a truck with a crane cut the wire of the city's trolleybus line.
In the video, posted online last week but apparently recorded in April, the woman falls to the ground with her bags, sparks flying all around her.
The driver of the vehicle whose dashcam recorded the incident can be heard swearing profusely at the truck driver. "Have you lost your [expletive] mind," he screams. "How the [expletive] are you driving?"
No word on what charges, if any, were pressed against the truck driver.
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