55 SMUD customers without power in south Sacramento after car crash

WHILE STUMPING. WE START WITH SOME BREAKING NEWS, THOUGH. OUT OF SOUTH SACRAMENTO THIS MORNING, WHERE A CAR CRASH HAS LEFT HUNDREDS WITHOUT POWER. POLICE SAY THE CRASH HAPPENED JUST AFTER 11:00 LAST NIGHT AT MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR BOULEVARD, JUST NORTH OF FRUIT RIDGE ROAD. THAT IS WHERE WE FIND MELANIE WINGO THIS MORNING. AND WHAT KIND OF PROGRESS ARE THEY MAKING OUT THERE? MELANIE? WELL, WE’RE AT A BIT OF A DIFFERENT ANGLE THAN WE WERE AT THE TOP OF THE 4:00 HOUR, AND AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME, THE WORK IS STILL VERY MUCH IN PROGRESS RIGHT HERE AT FRUITRIDGE ROAD. AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR BOULEVARD. BUT HERE’S HOW THINGS LOOK. A LITTLE BIT CLOSER UP. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO WE CAPTURED EARLIER THIS MORNING. SMUD CREWS WORKING TO FIX UTILITY LINES THAT WERE COMPROMISED AFTER THAT LATE NIGHT CRASH. ALL OF THIS HAPPENING JUST AFTER 11:00 LAST NIGHT. ACCORDING TO SACRAMENTO POLICE, THEY GOT A CALL ABOUT A VEHICLE INTO A POWER POLE WITH THIS INCIDENT. BUT AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE VEHICLE. SO WE’RE NOT EXACTLY SURE WHEN THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PULLED AWAY FROM THE SCENE. WE’RE STILL WORKING TO GET THAT INFORMATION FROM SACRAMENTO POLICE, AND WE DON’T HAVE ANY INFORMATION AS OF YET ABOUT THE DRIVER OF THAT VEHICLE. BUT SACRAMENTO POLICE DO SAY THAT THIS CRASH CAUSED A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF POWER OUTAGES AND A GAS LEAK IN THE AREA. AS OF RIGHT NOW, ABOUT 1200 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER. THIS MORNING AFTER THIS UNPLANNED OUTAGE. ACCORDING TO SMUD, ONLINE POWER OUTAGE TRACKER, THOSE CUSTOMERS EXPECTED TO HAVE POWER RESTORED AROUND 545 THIS MORNING AND BACK OUT HERE LIVE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO ESTIMATED TIME AS TO WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BOULEVARD WILL OPEN IN THIS STRETCH BETWEEN FRUITRIDGE AND ABOUT 26TH AVENUE, SO ACCORDING TO SACRAMENTO POLICE, IT’S A GOOD IDEA IF YOU CAN PLAN AN ALTERNATE ROUTE FOR YOUR MORNING COMMUTE. REPORTING LIVE IN SACRAMENTO THIS MORNING, MELANIE WINGO KCRA THREE NEWS. ALL RIGHT MELANIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS BREAKING STORY ALL MORNING FOR ROUND TH

55 SMUD customers without power in south Sacramento after car crashes into pole

Updated: 5:27 AM PDT Oct 21, 2024

About 55 SMUD customers were without as of around 4:30 a.m. Monday after a car crashed into a power pole in Sacramento’s South Oak Park neighborhood.Emergency medical services were dispatched around 11:16 p.m. Sunday to MLK Jr. Boulevard just north of Fruitridge Road. It was unclear what caused the crash or if anyone was injured. Power was expected to be fully restored in the area by 5:45 a.m. according to the SMUD outage map. See our live traffic map for updates.Click the video player above to watch other morning headlines from KCRA News 3This story was curated by Hearst’s KCRA Alert Desk.Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened near you, share this article with friends in your area using the KCRA mobile app so they can read along with you. The KCRA app is available for free in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

About 55 SMUD customers were without as of around 4:30 a.m. Monday after a car crashed into a power pole in Sacramento’s South Oak Park neighborhood.

Emergency medical services were dispatched around 11:16 p.m. Sunday to MLK Jr. Boulevard just north of Fruitridge Road.

It was unclear what caused the crash or if anyone was injured. Power was expected to be fully restored in the area by 5:45 a.m. according to the SMUD outage map.

See our live traffic map for updates.

Click the video player above to watch other morning headlines from KCRA News 3

This story was curated by Hearst’s KCRA Alert Desk.

Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened near you, share this article with friends in your area using the KCRA mobile app so they can read along with you. The KCRA app is available for free in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play.

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