Crash brings down power lines in Cary, closes road for 7 hours
Hundreds were without power Tuesday morning after a car brought down power lines.
Posted — UpdatedThe crash occurred before 2:30 a.m. on Trinity Road near Trinity Woods Drive and Chapel Hill Road. At 4 a.m., almost 600 people in the area were without power. By 6 a.m., that number had decreased by half.
The majority of customers had power again at 7:30 a.m.
The car left the road and ended up in a ditch, leaving three power lines stretched across Trinity Road. Officials at the scene said the driver fled the crash and has still not been located.
At 7 a.m., the Cary Police Department said Trinity Road will be closed north of Chapel Hill Road at Trinity Woods Drive for "several more hours" while crews work to repair the power pole.
At 9 a.m., crews were installing a new power pole.
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