Brookview apts. without power after overnight crash
Published:Saturday, June 04, 2016 @ 2:36 AM
Updated:Saturday, June 04, 2016 @ 4:51 PM
UPDATE @ 4:38 p.m.
Residents at the senior living facility, Brookview Place, 4032 N. Main St., have been without power more than 14 hours as Dayton Power and Light continues to make repairs following an overnight crash.
The crash took out a utility pole shortly after 2 a.m. and knocked power out for 2,345 customers.
Nearly all of the customers were restored within an hour and a half, but further repairs were necessary to restore power at the Brookview apartments and two other customers, according Kelly Millhouse, DP&L director of substation operations.
Those further repairs include complicated underground work and completing the repair to the pole, Millhouse said.
Complete restoration is expected to happen by 7 p.m.
UPDATE @ 12:39 p.m.
Power has been restored to thousands after a crash knocked down a utility police overnight at Melford Avenue and North Main Street.
Dayton Power and Light crew replaced the pole and customers were restored of power by noon Saturday. More than 2,300 customers were impacted.
UPDATE @ 6:55 a.m.
Deputies said DP&L crews will have to replace an entire pole before all repairs from an earlier crash will be completed at North Main Street and Melford Avenue.
About 180 outages remain, according to a DP&L online outage map, down from over 2,300 outages around the time of the crash.
All northbound traffic on North Main Street has been allowed to reopen, but deputies are still blocking the far right lane of southbound traffic.
Deputies said all lanes are expected to be open and power restored by 10 a.m.
UPDATE @ 3:40 a.m.
Deputies have blocked both directions of North Main Street near Melford Avenue for DP&L crews to repair a pole and wires damaged in an earlier crash.
At the peak of the outages, over 2,000 customers were without power in Montgomery County, but that number is down to 179, according to an online outage map.
It’s unknown when power will be restored to all customers, and when North Main Street will reopen.
UPDATE @ 2:50 a.m.
Just under 1,000 DP&L customers are still without power in Harrison Township following a crash on North Main Street.
Deputies said a child was also in the car when the crash occurred. The driver, only identified as a man, was taken into custody and is expected to be charged with OVI and child endangering.
DP&L crews are expected to be on scene for several hours.
FIRST REPORT
DP&L crews are expected to be on scene for several hours after a car slammed into a power pole and knocked out power to over 2,000 people in Harrison Township early Saturday morning.
Deputies and medics were dispatched to the intersection of North Main Street and Melford Avenue around 1:40 a.m. on reports of a car into a pole with wires down on the car.
Deputies said the driver was not injured in the crash, but drugs or alcohol are believed to be a factor.
DP&L crews said they expect to be on the scene for several hours to repair the damaged pole and wires, and outages were expected. At 2:30 a.m. an online outage map reported 2,335 customers were in the dark in Montgomery County.
Southbound traffic on North Main Street is currently being rerouted around the crash scene.
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