RESIDENTS GET POWER BACK; CAR CRASH CUT ELECTRICITY TO 2,500.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Electricity was restored Monday to the last of 2,500 homes and businesses that lost power after a car sheered off a 70-foot-tall power pole power pole Noun Austral & NZ a pole carrying an overhead power line , injuring a pedestrian who was hit by falling debris. Nearly half of the customers got their power back within 30 seconds of the 7:21 p.m. Sunday crash on Avenue I at Beech Avenue, and all but 60 within a half-hour, Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. officials said. Edison crews from as far as Valencia and Moorpark worked through the night to repair the lines. ``They replaced the pole during the night,'' said Alis Clausen, Edison's region manager. The last businesses and homes got their power back by 9:30 a.m. Monday, about 14 hours after the crash, authorities said. The 19-year-old motorist, Raul Tello of Lancaster, who deputies said had no license and no insurance, told deputies he lost control of his 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass The Oldsmobile Cutlass was an automobile made by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors. The Cutlass was introduced in 1961 as a unibody compact car competing with the Dodge Lancer and Mercury Comet. because of mechanical problems with its front suspension. The sedan Sedan (sədäN`), town (1990 pop. 22,407), Ardennes dept., NE France, on the Meuse River. A noted textile center since the 16th cent., Sedan also has metal and brewing industries. The town became part of French crown lands in 1642. hit a fire hydrant and power pole at 548 W. Ave. I, shearing off the hydrant and severing the power pole. Sheila Henderson, 49, of Lancaster suffered a cut on the head from falling debris as she was walking in the area. Tello and his passenger, Augustin Media Jr., 18, of Lancaster suffered minor injuries, deputies said. Tello will be cited for driving without a license and without insurance, deputies said. Avenue I was closed for several hours between Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and Date Avenue, officials said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Southern California Edison employee Mark Williamson Professor Mark H. Williamson OBE is professor emeritus of biology at the University of York. He is an expert on biological invasions. Williamson gained a BA from the Oxford in 1950 and received a D.Phil. eight years later, having been a demonstrator of at Oxford since 1952. uses a jackhammer to break concrete around a utility pole A utility pole, telegraph pole, telephone pole, power pole, or telegraph post is a post or pole upon which telecommunication network equipment is situated. that was broken in half. (2--Color) Edison worker Roger Mann cuts a groove in a utility pole that was replaced after Sunday's crash. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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