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.