Boy catapulted on to rail line by 25,000-volt shock

A boy was catapulted from a bridge on to a railway track after being given an electric shock by a 25,000-volt power line.

Sam Cunningham, 16, of Liverpool Road, Wigan, England, was retrieving a rugby ball from a bridge when he was hit by the charge from overhead power cables, attracted by steel toe caps in his boots.