Car Crash Near Old Shell Road Knocks Out Power to 700 in West Mobile
A car crash near Old Shell Road and Foreman Road cut electricity to about 700 Alabama Power customers in west Mobile for roughly an hour Friday morning.
About 700 Alabama Power customers in west Mobile briefly lost electricity early Friday morning after a car crash struck a power pole, according to a utility spokeswoman.
Alabama Power spokeswoman Beth Thomas said reports of the outage began arriving before 7:15 a.m., with a vehicle striking a power pole identified as the cause. Crews worked to restore service to the affected area, with power fully back on by around 8:20 a.m., roughly an hour after the outage was first reported.
Thomas did not specify the exact location of the crash that triggered the outage. However, Mobile Fire-Rescue crews responded around 7 a.m. to a separate report of a crash at the intersection of Old Shell Road and Foreman Road in west Mobile. A fire department spokesman confirmed crews responded to that call but did not say whether a utility pole was damaged as part of that particular accident.
No injuries connected to the crash were disclosed as of the utility’s update.
About Alabama Power
Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, is headquartered in Birmingham and supplies electricity to about 1.4 million customers across the southern two-thirds of Alabama, including Mobile.
