Sad, but I'm just not understanding how this happened.

[N2CHX]

http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/218...er-High-School

Four people injured when the goal posts they were moving came into contact with 115 kV power lines. Two of them were teenagers. The school superintendent said the goal posts hadn't been moved since 1999. Tragic, but how could they not see that they were about to hit those lines? This happened at the High School my son attends, just down the road from us. My kids know one of the boys who was airlifted from the accident. I just hope they all make it.

[suddenseer]

OMG! I hope all of the injured recover. I hope the authorities figure out why it happened, and take immediate corrective action. This just isn't right.

[N8YX]

Most people don't understand exactly how much voltage flows in overhead lines. The assumption is made that it's all 110 or 220v...and what's the worst thing which could happen with those potentials?

Sad that it happened and fortunate no one died. 115KV is absolutely nothing to screw with.

[NM5TF]

my 1st thot was ....why were teenagers, students I guess, doing the job that school maintenance people
should have been doing....and why didn't they have a spotter to watch out for things like OH power lines

luckily no one has died.....yet...........

[NA4BH]

Holy crap, I hope all will be OK.

[kb2vxa]

I don't get it, the lines are at the opposite (right) end of the track next to the football field so WTF were portable goal posts doing way over there??? There's so much I just don't understand considering the layout of the school property. BTW the news video was as expected shot from the parking lot near the grassy field on the track side of the lines using a telephoto lens, the crew kept back from the scene. Such a lens distorts depth of field, there's a large grassy field beyond the lines, the housing development looks much closer than it really is.

"This happened at the High School my son attends, just down the road from us."
Kel, 'twould be nice to ask him what's what here and get back to us, the article doesn't match what Google's eye in the sky sees.

[N2CHX]

I don't get it, the lines are at the opposite (right) end of the track next to the football field so WTF were portable goal posts doing way over there??? There's so much I just don't understand considering the layout of the school property. BTW the news video was as expected shot from the parking lot near the grassy field on the track side of the lines using a telephoto lens, the crew kept back from the scene. Such a lens distorts depth of field, there's a large grassy field beyond the lines, the housing development looks much closer than it really is.

"This happened at the High School my son attends, just down the road from us."
Kel, 'twould be nice to ask him what's what here and get back to us, the article doesn't match what Google's eye in the sky sees.

I'm pretty familiar with that field, as my youngest plays lacrosse there all the time. The lines run right along the road behind the fieldhouse on the east side of the football field, which is just south of the track. Apparently they were moving them out of the way? It's still not clear as to what exactly they were trying to accomplish.

[PA5COR]

One reason i'm glad we have all electricity lines underground here except the 500 KV lines feeding the substations...
I hope the kids all get better soon.

[KB3LAZ]

One reason i'm glad we have all electricity lines underground here except the 500 KV lines feeding the substations...
I hope the kids all get better soon.

I wish that were the case here. In the city they are rather high and out of the way but in towns (around the villas) they are really low. 10' give or take.

I too hope all of the kids get well soon.

[NQ6U]

If you go to Google Maps, switch to "satellite" view and zoom way in, you can clearly see the portable goal posts in the northwest northeast corner of the large grass field across the road from the east end of the track. That means the kids had already moved them quite a ways before they encountered the power lines.