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TwitterUpdate: Accident causes power outage
Thursday, March 22, 2007
A Union Road accident caused 1,900 Duke Energy customers to lo
se power this
Extras
evening
, said Duke spokeswoman Kathy Meinke.
Power was restored to all customers by 6:15 p.m., she said.
The outages occurred when a truck struck a utility pole on Union Road just south of Manchester Road at 5:48 p.m., said Trooper Bob Rose, of the Lebanon
p
ost
of the Ohio
Highway Patrol.
Five children were transported to Middletown Hospital for minor injuries after the Franklin Twp. accident, Rose said. All children in the truck, ages
2
to
9
, were buckled in at the time of the accident, Rose said.
The driver of the 2000 Ford truck, 24-year-old Courtney Duff, of Franklin, also suffered minor injuries. Duff
has not been
cited in the crash
because an investigation as to why her vehicle left the road is ongoing, Rose said.
