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Crash Damages Utility Pole, Sparks Outage
14 Mar
Summary
- A crash damaged a utility pole early Saturday morning.
- Power outage affected customers near Perimeter Park Road.
- Approximately 78 customers lost power due to the incident.

Crews are actively working to restore power in West Knox County following a crash that severely damaged a utility pole early Saturday morning. The incident, reported around 6:30 a.m., occurred in the vicinity of Kingston Pike and Perimeter Park Road. Lenoir City Utilities Board confirmed that supervisors and crews were dispatched to the scene.
The damaged utility pole, depicted in a shared photograph, was broken into multiple pieces, leading to widespread power disruption. As of the article's publication, approximately 78 customers near Perimeter Park Road were experiencing an outage that began around 3:47 a.m.




