This is National Teen Driver Safety Week, and Ameren Illinois urges parents to remind their young drivers to stay in their cars, if they're involved in an accident and a power line is on their car.
Ameren spokesperson Brian Bretsch says a live line can create a danger zone dozens of feet around around a vehicle.
"As the electricity goes into the ground it kind of rolls out, like a little wave until it gets to about 30, 40 feet away."
Bretsch says if the car has a live wire on it, the driver should stay in their car, and dial 911 so the operator can quickly notify Ameren, and have the power line turned off. Bretsch adds last year, IDOT reported between 3-thousand and 35-hundred car accidents involving power poles.
