Mate
Extremely unlucky is an understatement.
No comment on the cause of him wanting to land on the highway but if he could have gotten a couple more minutes out of it, he could have made the Elliott strip.
Or if the car hadn't happened along when it did, he would have run under the wire.
I wondered that the wire was still strung up. He certainly damaged the system enough to knock out power along the line.
My layman's guess was that he just snagged a wheel as he pulled up at low speed and it effectively tripped him in nose first.
I saw a Thorpe 18 take out powerlines back in 1977 but only one of the three lines actually came down.
As far as luck goes, its in the same category as the two guys standing on a bridge in the middle of nowhere Kakadu a few years back. A landcruiser with trailer drove by and, just as it got to them, the trailer broke its coupling and took them both out.