MVA Causes College Heights Power Outage

Saturday, January 14, 2006 05:31 AM

A large number of residents living in College Heights will be waking up to blinking VCR lights this morning, after a single vehicle accident on Domano Boulevard.

RCMP Staff-Sergeant Jeff McArthur says a pick-up truck lost control, near Gladstone Crescent, bringing down a power pole.

Staff-Sergeant McArthur says the crash brought down live wires for approximately 100-metres and the two occupants were forced to stay with the badly damaged truck while police and fire department officials set up a perimeter. McArthur says BC Hydro officials arrived on the scene and assisted in getting the two people safely out of the area.

Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in the mishap.

Approximately 2341 customers were impacted by the outage that occurred at just after 1:00am this morning. Hydro had originally been estimating it would take until noon to restore service, but the lights went back on at 6:17am.

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Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 05:31 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Gofaster on January 15 2006 9:08 AM

it is this type of thing that ends up costing everyone...gives insurace companies a reason to up the premiums...is there an island somewhere where we can put these drunk drivers so they can never drive again or do much of anything else either....oh right they are hard done by people who were abused or some such excuse......