A car hitting a utility pole caused a power outage in Burlington Wednesday morning, police said.
Before 6:30 a.m., a vehicle traveling east on South Mebane Street collided with a second vehicle. After the collision, the first vehicle hit a utility pole, which broke the pole in half, police said. The broken utility pole caused outages on Mebane Street, Fisher Street, Church Street and Webb Avenue on Wednesday. Power to all but two customers had been restored by 10:30 a.m., according to a Duke Energy online outage map.
The person accused of hitting the pole fled the scene, and police have a warrant for his arrest. He faces charges of careless and reckless driving, hit and run, driving while license revoked and resist, delay, obstruct.
As the year comes to a close, COVID-19 case counts continue to climb nine months after the pandemic began. The Alamance County Health Department reported Sunday there have been a total of 10,583 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 147 deaths since the disease struck the area earlier this year.
Sunday’s case count indicates 644 new cases confirmed in the past week and 13 new deaths. The Health Department reported 991 individuals remain in isolation, while 9,445 have recovered and been released from isolation. Forty-nine people were hospitalized for COVID-related care as of Sunday.
An average of 111 new cases has been reported per day in the last week, including 165 on Sunday.