Nearly 2,500 Duke Energy customers were without power in downtown Durham on Friday afternoon after a car crashed into a pole.
The outage happened around 4:30 p.m. and stretches south to E. Lawson Street to past W. Trinity Avenue north of downtown.
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said a vehicle hit a power pole at Duke Street and Yancey Street. Durham Police told ABC11 that two vehicles crashed, causing one car to hit several power poles.
A utility crew is working to make repairs. Brooks said the estimated time of restoration might be 7:15 p.m., but at 7:30 p.m., Duke’s outage map showed power might not be fully restored until after midnight…