Updated 5:17 p.m.–
With a severed power pole and dangling wires in the street, all directions of traffic at Greenback Lane and San Juan Avenue were shut down for several hours Friday morning, due to a collision involving several vehicles, an electrical pole and a big rig.
“I heard a snap,” said Bill Devey, a driver who witnessed the incident. “And then the pole came on top of my truck… and then there was an explosion.”
Devey said he believed a big rig pulled down a power pole and dragged it for several feet until realizing what happened.
“I thought we were gonna die,” said a woman whose car was visibly scarred from electrical damage and preferred not to give her full name. She said electrical wires were sparking across the ground, and was instructed to stay in the vehicle for safety.
Emergency personnel with the Citrus Heights Police Department and Sac Metro Fire responded to the scene, with CHPD Senior Dispatcher Stephen Rodwell later confirming a big rig had hit some wires and pulled down two utility poles.
Rodwell said only minor injuries were reported and does not believe anyone was sent to the hospital. He said lanes at the intersection were re-opened by 1 p.m., although SMUD repair crews were still blocking off several turn lanes at the intersection around 4:30 p.m.
SMUD’s online power outage map indicates an outage occurred at the intersection just after 9 a.m. Friday, with about 400 customers losing power.
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