Crime & Safety
Power Restored to 1,600 Mountain View Customers
A traffic collision on Old Middlefield Way west of North Rengstorff Avenue damaged electrical lines Tuesday night.
MOUNTAIN VIEW-Roughly 1,630 utility customers in Mountain View were in the dark Tuesday night after a traffic collision damaged electrical lines, according to PG&E.
The outage began at 8:26 p.m., according to PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi, and power had been restored for all affected customers by 9:45 p.m.
The outage was caused by a collision on Old Middlefield Way west of North Rengstorff Avenue.
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One of the vehicles involved struck a guy-wire for a power pole, causing the wire to wrap around the overhead power lines, according to Guidi.
PG&E crews were able to safely remove the guy-wire.
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Further details were not immediately available.
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