Outage resulted from car striking power pole
Hundreds of Blue Ridge Electric customers lost power temporarily this morning when a car hit a pole on Shiloh Road and Davis Creek Road. Officials reported one injury in that accident. Power crews arrived shortly after 7 o’clock and discovered that the car had hit a single-phase electric power pole. But, according to Blue Ridge’s Terry Ballenger, the impact caused a wire to wrap around a three-phase pole. The accident scene was surrounded by a heavy fog.