Yellowknife (Feb 24/06) - A woman riding in a car snared by fallen power lines feared for her life as four transport trucks rumbled down the Ingraham Trail towards her early Thursday morning.

The woman and her husband were driving to Yellowknife from their home at Prelude Lake shortly before 7 a.m. when a vehicle that "looked like a tow truck... flew by us" as its extended boom snagged overhead lines, pulling them and three power poles down onto the road near Giant Mine.

"I saw two lines at neck level and I curled my body into a ball so I didn't get decapitated," she said. "It was horrible."

The lines caused significant damage to their vehicle. A second vehicle was also entangled in the downed power lines.

The woman said she was afraid to get out of the vehicle for fear of being electrocuted.

"We were now in the oncoming lane. I could see four trucks coming."

She said her husband used a cellphone to call police and ask them to shut down truck traffic on the Trail.

Convoys of transport trucks are using the road to get to the ice road to Barrenland diamond mines. Luckily, said the woman, there was no power in the lines.

According to police, the "boom truck" left the scene of the accident after the driver stopped to untangle the boom from the lines.

"The RCMP is encouraging the driver to come forward and provide an accident report as soon as possible," said Const. Colleen Werrell.

The vehicle was described by police as a dark coloured, one-tonne truck similar to a tow truck, with a boom extended straight up and a fluorescent-coloured wrecking ball on the front.

The woman involved in the crash said the truck also had yellow writing on the side.