Risky Driving! Incredible rescue of Tennessee woman who somehow crashed UP a telephone pole and was suspended for TWO HOURS in high-voltage wires

...freak autocrash bests anything TV script writers could have created for their stuntsmen, right up the pole

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Photo: Dan Lampariello/WBBJ

Cable car: This extraordinary scene occurred in Tennessee Friday evening when a car drove up the guy-wires connecting the pole to the ground and became tangled in cables. The 56-year-old driver wasn't seriously hurt

Incredible driving skills or pure freak of driving?   

Police say The woman, who is not being named, had the crash Friday night ...she drove up a wire connecting the pole to the ground
    She then drove up the pole and ended up suspended from its wires
    It took two hours to get her down, but she was uninjured
    Police say no drink, drugs, distractions, medical conditions were involved

 Continue to incredible photos after the cut ...

The freakiest of 'freak accidents' occurred Friday evening, police say, when a 56-year-old unnamed Tennessee woman managed to drive UP a telephone pole and get tangled in high-voltage wires for hours until rescue crews could bring her down.

The accident occurred around 11.30pm in Medina, police told The Jackson Sun, when the woman's car went off-road, hit a fence and drove up a guy-wire connecting the pole to the ground.

She then drove up the pole itself until her front tire caught on a wire at the top, leaving her suspended in the air, in a scene captured by WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News. Astonishingly, the woman was not seriously injured. 

Photo: WBBJ

Wheely unlikely: The car was being held up by a cable that got caught around a wheel. The driver, who is not being named by police, was stranded for two hours while emergency services dealt with electrical cables

Medina Fire Chief Jeff Rollins told the Sun, 'I've been doing this for 38 years, and I've never seen this before.'

But though emergency crews were quickly notified by those in the residential area, rescue crews were not able to bring down the woman straight away.

'We had to call the power company and got them there because the pole that she was hanging from was connected to a high voltage power line,' Rollins told WBBJ 7. 

The power company feared that a broken line might not only result in the car dropping to the ground, it could also knock out power to the whole area, he said.

Photo: Miranda Faris/Jackson Sun

Picked up: The driver was eventually brought down in a cherry picker. Police say that speed was an issue in the accident, but ruled out alcohol, drugs, a medical condition or distractions as factors

The woman had to wait two hours before emergency crews were able to use a power company's cherry picker to extract her from the car at around 1.30am.She was taken by ambulance to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and later released.

Police say speed was a factor in her extraordinary predicament, but denied that alcohol, drugs, distractions or medical conditions were involved.

The car was later lowered down to the ground and taken away on a flatbed truck.

Reports circulated that bottles fell out of the vehicle when it was being lowered, but local resident Jeff Wilson, whose house is next to the scene of the extraordinary crash, denied the claim to WBBJ 7.

'I never saw any bottles fall out the truck,' he said. 'The pictures I took and the videos I took, I can’t say that I did.'

Police have not released the woman's name, and at the time of writing, she had not been charged with any crime.

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