Winds only around 30kmh in Derrimut today which wouldn't be the sole cause. May have been a strong contributing factor though. Haven't seen a crane fail like this before - its bent over itself backwards so the mast must have been near vertical.
In high winds mast should be horizontal. But usually these have a wind speed limit of like 50kmh+
The 'under control' update on VicEmergency was sent at 11:18am, so I'd assume that this happened somewhere in the range of 10:30-11:00am. Laverton recorded the cool change passing through at about 10:45am with the winds swinging around from the NW to the W and peak gusts up to 60-70km/h, so it could very well be solely wind related
Happened at about 10:20. The power went out for the whole street because apparently the crane hit some power lines on the way down. I got to leave work early so that’s nice
57
u/xlr8_87 13d ago
Winds only around 30kmh in Derrimut today which wouldn't be the sole cause. May have been a strong contributing factor though. Haven't seen a crane fail like this before - its bent over itself backwards so the mast must have been near vertical.
In high winds mast should be horizontal. But usually these have a wind speed limit of like 50kmh+