A driver trying to back up his semitrailer truck caused at least $20,000 damage to the Davis County central emissions testing station in Kaysville Monday afternoon.
Environmental Health Division director Rich Harvey said the driver of the England Freight Co. truck was misdirected, and when he tried to back his rig around to get back to the I-15 frontage road, the trailer became entangled in a guy wire supporting an electrical power pole.The rig pulled down the pole, ripped down about 300 feet of power line and pulled the service meter off the wall of the emissions center, Harvey said.
"It was pretty scary there for a few mintues, with a live 26,000-volt electrical line flopping around," Harvey said. No one was injured in the incident.
The computerized equipment at the center is protected against power surges, Harvey said, but technicians aren't sure what effect the arcing and shorting of the power lines had on it.