Power Outage Caused by Accident

Power has been restored to several hundred homes near the intersection of Duke Street and Jordan Street.

A vehicle accident at the intersection of Duke and Jordan streets caused 600 people to lose power at 9:24 a.m. 

But, the City of Alexandria and Dominion Power got hit with a double whammy Wednesday, as another incident left thousands more without power closer to Old Town.

In south Old Town about 137 locations still are without power as of 12:30 p.m. A piece of switch equipment that redirects electricity failed Wednesday morning leaving 2,200 with no electricity.

Most of those customers were south of the heart of Old Town, down Richmond Highway toward 495, according to Dominion Power spokeswoman Le-Ha Anderson.

It is not clear at this time why the equipment failed. "It could  happen for many different reasons," Anderson said.