Power was knocked out in Regina’s warehouse district Friday morning due to a collision.
SaskPower sent out a Tweet at 4:49 a.m. saying a crash had caused an outage for Dewdney Avenue to North Central, as well as parts of Albert Street. By 6:30 a.m., power had been restored to customers west of Albert Street, but was expected to remain off for the Warehouse District until about noon.
The collision itself happened on 8th Avenue between Cornwall Street and Scarth Street. An orange Pontiac had hit a power pole, breaking the pole at its base. By 7 a.m., police officers were still on scene of the crash and SaskPower crews began work to restore power.
Police & SaskPower on scene of crash @ 8th east of Cornwall that has knocked out power to the area pic.twitter.com/Voz6whiv2o
— Courtney Markewich (@cjmarkewich) May 13, 2016
Officers are investigating the crash while SaskPower crews wait to restore service #yqr pic.twitter.com/yBFLM5qU3K
— Courtney Markewich (@cjmarkewich) May 13, 2016