Car crashes into pole taking out power to more than 1,000 in East County

A car accident has left more than 1,000 residents in East County without power Tuesday, according to SDG&E.

The outage was reported at around midnight affecting 1,164 residents in the areas of Granite Hills, Bostonia and East El Cajon. Power restoration was restored to all affected neighborhoods before 7 p.m., SDG&E's targeted restoration time.

According to SDG&E, a car crashed into a power pole, taking down several power lines. Initially, 2,200 residents were impacted but they were able to restore power to about half. SDG&E estimates to restore power by early evening.

No other information was available.

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