A tuk tuk driver in India had a lucky escape when an electricity pole carrying a high-voltage wire fell on his vehicle.<br /><br />Amazingly, the tuk tuk driver and his lone passenger survived the mishap without a scratch. <br /><br />The incident occurred at Bhiwani, a city in the state of Haryana in India's north, on May 17 and was caught on a CCTV camera. <br /><br />The police said an erratically driven truck collided with an electricity pole and brought it down. <br /><br />The pole went down, yanking the high voltage wires that had connected it to a few other poles on the same road. <br /><br />Police said three poles tumbled under the impact of the accident.<br /><br />Video footage from a traffic CCTV camera shows one of the poles giving in and falling on the tuk tuk in a case of wrong place, wrong time. <br /><br />The cement pole crashed down, smashing the rear end of the tuk tuk missing the driver and passenger by inches. <br /><br />People in the vicinity rushed to their aid as both of them emerged out of the damaged vehicle unscathed. <br /><br />Eyewitness Babu Chaudhury, 53, said: “Luckily, the high voltage wires were insulated or the accident would have claimed several lives.”<br /><br />“In a similar accident three members of a family died when a high voltage wire fell on them in a nearby town two years ago,” he recalled.
