An Orange County man claims a downed line on an Orlando Street wrapped around his neck and pulled him off his Vespa.
MS says it happened late at night on June 24. He was riding down the street, heading home on his Vespa. He said he noticed parts of a downed tree in the road.
“As soon as I noticed it, it was like a split second,” S said. “That’s when I felt the cable around my neck. And then felt the friction, it was spooling.”
The thought that was going through his head, he said, “I thought I could easily be electrocuted.”
S said he doesn’t actually know what kind of line it was, but it wasn’t electrified. He said he tried to hit the brakes as fast as he could.
“But eventually it pulled me off the bike, and it hit my leg,” S said.
When WESH spoke with S over a week later, his leg was still swollen. There was a prominent rash of red circling his neck.
Photos from the night it happened show first responders circling S. He said he’s not insured. So, he skipped the ambulance ride and took himself to the hospital.
“I got an X-ray and a sonogram,” he said.
S said he doesn’t believe it was a power line that took him out. The Orlando Fire Department confirmed crews responded to a medical emergency after midnight on June 24th. They said they found a patient with injuries, a downed tree, and a downed cable line.
S thinks a rotten tree took down lines on the street. He said he has hired an attorney who’s trying to come to an agreement with the owner of the property he said the tree was on.
“It was obviously rotten,” he said. “Could have been somebody walking under it, it’s right over a sidewalk.
S said his neck is healing, but his leg is a blood clot concern. He said the mental toll may be the worst of it.
“This was emotionally much more traumatic than it was physically, as it turns out. I really felt like I came close to dying,” he said.
WESH made attempts to reach the owner of the property, S alleges the tree was on for comment. We have not heard back.
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