{"id":2016292,"date":"2023-08-30T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T00:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:59:24","slug":"family-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina teacher&#8217;s family seeks improved rural infrastructure after tragic utility pole incident."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamily-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Falling Utility Pole Claims Life of \u2062Teacher in South Carolina \u200dTown<\/h2>\n<p>In \u200ca tragic incident that occurred last week, a 31-year-old teacher lost her life after being struck \u200cby\u2062 a falling utility pole\u2063 in the small town of Wagener, South Carolina.\u200c The family of Jeunelle Robinson \u200cis \u2062now pointing fingers at the poor rural infrastructure,\u200d claiming that\u2062 it played \u200da significant role\u200b in this avoidable tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>On\u200c her lunch break \u200don August 23, Ms. Robinson\u2062 was walking down a Main Street intersection when a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure\/\" title=\"South Carolina teacher's family seeks improved rural infrastructure after tragic utility pole incident.\">tractor-trailer \u200baccidentally snagged overhead\u2063 power lines<\/a>. This caused multiple poles to come \u200bcrashing down, \u2064with one\u200c of them striking Ms.\u200b Robinson \u200bwith such force that she later succumbed to her injuries at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to a lawyer\u2062 representing Ms. Robinson&#8217;s \u2063relatives, this wooden pole would not have collapsed so easily if the utility \u200ccompanies \u2062had maintained\u200d the \u2062equipment in the rural community as efficiently as they do in\u2063 the city. Wagener, \u2063with \u200ba population of approximately\u200d 600\u200b people, is \u200clocated about 35\u200b miles southwest of Columbia, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-epa-pick-most-solar-energy-electric-vehicle-parts-come-from-china\/\" title=\"Biden EPA Pick: \u2018Most\u2019 Solar Energy, Electric Vehicle Parts \u2018Come From China\u2019\">state capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related \u200cStories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/graduate-student-charged-with-murder-in-killing-of-university-of-north-carolina-faculty-member-5482443\">Graduate Student\u200b Charged\u2063 With\u200b Murder in Killing of University of\u2062 North Carolina Faculty Member<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/pedestrian-killed-in-collision-in-garden-grove-5482253\">Pedestrian \u200bKilled\u2064 in Collision in Garden Grove<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/28\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>State Representative\u200b Justin Bamberg, who\u200b is also an attorney \u200crepresenting the family, revealed that the leaning poles in Wagener had been deteriorating for some\u200d time. In a video shown during a \u200cnews conference, Wagener Mayor Michael Miller, now 69 years old,\u2062 recognized a \u2064soft drink \u2063bottle cap that\u200d he \u200dhad attached to one of \u2062the fallen poles when he was just \u200ca young boy.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Miller expressed his \u200cfrustration, stating that it was unacceptable for eight\u200d poles to collapse in \u2062a single street, stretching as long as a football field. However, \u2064he acknowledged that \u2063small towns like Wagener are often overlooked when it comes\u200c to infrastructure maintenance. He mentioned that one \u2063of the poles had not been inspected since 2014, and many \u200dhad significantly \u2062deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would never see poles\u2064 like the ones we \u2063have\u2064 here in Columbia, Aiken, or Augusta,&#8221; Mayor \u200dMiller told The Associated\u200c Press. \u2063&#8221;It&#8217;s just part of being a\u2062 country town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Representative Bamberg emphasized that\u2062 this \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedian-uncle-roger-previews-what-a-future-under-chinese-commies-looks-like\/\" title=\"Uncle Roger gives a glimpse of life under Chinese Communism.\">incident sheds light<\/a> on the &#8220;darker side&#8221; of\u200b the lack of \u200dinvestment from businesses that \u200brural residents rely \u2063on for essential services like electricity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The negligence\u200b of those who have \u200cmore money than \u200bthe \u200dentire\u2063 state of South \u2062Carolina is what took her life,&#8221; he \u2064stated.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear \u200bwhich\u200d utility companies were\u200d responsible for \u2062overseeing the poles at the \u2062intersection. Dominion \u2063Energy, which serves parts of the area, recently announced a power\u2063 line project and acknowledged the need to replace some electricity \u200bequipment that had \u2064been in service\u200c for 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dominion Energy expressed their deepest condolences to the family in a statement and mentioned that \u200cthey cannot\u2063 provide\u2063 further \u2063details at this time due to the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator \u200dBrad Hutto has \u2064vowed to \u200daddress utility regulations when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-to-call-special-legislative-session-to-address-covid-19-vaccine-mandates\/\" title=\"DeSantis To Call Special Legislative Session To Address COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates\">legislative session begins<\/a>\u2064 in\u200c January. He intends to \u200censure that companies report the \u200cresults of their inspections and that \u200ca \u200cstate\u200d agency monitors their efforts to address any identified issues.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Bamberg is calling \u2063for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a 31-year-old teacher killed in South Carolina blames inadequate rural infrastructure for her death. Jeunelle Robinson was struck by a falling utility pole while walking on her lunch break in Wagener. 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