He's an incredibly lucky man.
My father was electrocuted when I was about 5 yrs old, maybe '63 or '64. A construction job, he was in contact with a crane boom when it swung into some high tension lines. It effectively killed him on the spot. Operator was unharmed.
Dad was burned over 75% of his body. blew off his left kneecap, melted the soles of his shoes to his feet, dreadful burns under both arms, back of his head had a 3" diameter burn.
His co-workers loaded him in a pickup immediately and headed to the nearest hospital. On the way while running a stop sign or light came the lucky accident.
The doctors said without that car crash he would not have lived; that the accident restarted his heart. I remember my mother, who never drove fast, leaving as fast a 1958 Ford truck would go. All it would ever do, she wrung out of it for about 40 miles to Waynesville NC.
I got to visit him at the hospital after maybe 3 months, bandages all over, not recognizable to me. He was there for about a year, then the out patient stuff for another year.
He healed, with heavy scarring except the one in back of his head, about a silver dollar sized patch where hair never grew back. The majority of the body burns were like a bad blistering sunburn, and didn't scar much.
Docs said he was lucky to live through that, most with over 50% burns didn't make it. In later years when I could understand, I was told he'd been lucky to reach the hospital with a heartbeat.
So that car crash was also a lucky accident; I was told it was bad. Turns out it was good.
After he got better, he went to work again. He's gone now for other reasons, but he was a tough bird.
And I thought about how lucky I was.
Thanks Dad
Dobber