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Traffic accident causes 1,650 customers to lose power
2 power poles fell in S. Hall wreck
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A Jackson EMC lineman inspects a power pole along Poplar Springs Road after it was damaged when a truck hit a guy wire and felled two poles near Hopewell Baptist Church, putting some 1,650 customers out of power Wednesday morning. The incident happened about a mile from where two poles fell earlier this month.
Power poles are having a hard time standing in a South Hall neighborhood. Less than a month after a random tree fall took out three power poles, nearly 1,650 Jackson Electric Membership Corp. customers lost power Wednesday following a traffic accident that felled two poles, with both incidents taking place within a half-mile of each other. On Wednesday, the driver of a truck struck a guy wire — a heavy line running from the top of a pole to the ground, used to steady the pole — on Poplar Springs Road at Hopewell Baptist Church.