Crash causes power cut
Up to .600 electricity users in Lincoln were without power for 45 minutes last evening after a car struck a power pole at the corner of Carters Road and Rivers Road. > -- The. accident happened at 9.37 p.m. No-ohe was thought to have been seriously: in-, jured. ? > ' 7.7 " ;.■ /A> spokesman for the Centrap? Canterbury... 'Electric -Tower Board said last even-ing-that the accident had cut power on a main line in the area. Power Was restored to . most ;consumers soon after the/fault.’ was found. ? ; The remaining five.or six consumers were stilljwithout power at 11.3fr;p,jrn: but were expected' to.-'&e reconnected by 12 30 a.m,'today. - r
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Press, 25 November 1982, Page 6
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