Sam Cunningham suffered 25,000-volt of electric shock but very lucky to be alive. He thrown 25 feet off a railway bridge on to the tracks below by the electric shock.
The 16-year-old is now being treated for severe burns in hospital, where experts say he is “lucky to be alive”.
Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots.
He was knocked unconscious by the fall and all his clothes were burned off.
After paramedics arrived Sam regained consciousness and managed to phone his mother Ann.
