Watch: Las Vegas car crushed by power poles during windstorm with 60-70 mph gusts

LAS VEGAS – Ferocious winds sent powerfulness poles crashing onto a Las Vegas roadworthy connected Tuesday afternoon, crushing 1 conveyance arsenic a dashcam recorded the full ordeal.

Video from the dashcam begins with postulation moving on Jones Boulevard, which runs respective blocks westbound of the Las Vegas strip. Then successful the distance, brake lights connected the cars up crook connected successful unison arsenic thing seemed amiss.

At that point, powerfulness poles tin beryllium seen collapsing one-by-one onto the cars. In astir 4 seconds, a powerfulness rod adjacent to the car with the dashcam snaps and falls onto the hood of the car.

"Oh man," idiosyncratic could beryllium heard saying successful the car.

Power poles drawback implicit Las Vegas roadworthy connected Tuesday afternoon.

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Local reports said the operator was not injured. They noted that arsenic his car was trapped underneath the powerfulness pole, helium managed to flight done the rider broadside door, arsenic electrical wires blocked the driver's broadside door.

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The incidental occurred during an aggravated windstorm that swept done Las Vegas, producing upwind gusts of 60 mph astatine Harry Reid International Airport and upwind gusts of astatine slightest 70 mph astatine reflection stations astir adjacent Henderson.

The almighty winds knocked implicit powerfulness poles crossed Las Vegas, peculiarly successful the occidental and bluish suburbs. Overall, the harm caused a powerfulness outage for much than 30,000 customers, according to NV Energy.

In summation to collapsing powerfulness poles, the upwind besides whipped up a particulate tempest that caused visibility to plummet. Clark County Nevada officials noted reports of lone a 4th mile of visibility with winds of up to 60 mph.

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Northeast of Las Vegas, the upwind was a apt origin successful the dispersed of a wildfire that killed a fig of workplace animals, according to the Clark County Fire Department.