The Brief
- Hundreds of Tacoma residents lost power Wednesday morning after a car crash knocked down power lines near South 76th Street and Pacific Avenue.
- Police arrested the driver, suspected of driving under the influence, after their car struck a pedestrian and then a power pole, with the pedestrian hospitalized in unknown condition.
TACOMA, Wash. – Hundreds of Tacoma residents were without power Wednesday morning after a car crash knocked down power lines.
Reports of a crash came in after 4:45 a.m. and a nearby resident reported hearing a transformer explode near South 76th Street and Pacific Avenue.
According to Tacoma police, a car hit a pedestrian and then a power pole, which caused the outage. …