A careless truck driver knocked out electricity in East Pattaya when the crane he was hauling snagged power lines and pulled down two utility poles.
Chuchart Topai, the 45-year-old driver of the Samut Prakan-registered Isuzu six-wheeler, admitted he was unfamiliar with Pattaya and drove down Sukhumvit Soi 33 without realizing his crane was too tall for the power lines there.
Moving at normal speed, Topai hit the wires and continued on, causing one power pole to topple into the road and a second to lean badly.
The Provincial Electricity Authority rushed to the scene and closed the road, then took several hours to install new power poles and rewire the lines.
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