Thousands of residents living in Richmond’s southern neighbourhoods lost their electricity Saturday morning after a transit bus crashed into a B.C. Hydro pole at the intersection of No. 3 Road and Steveston Highway.
A Coast Mountain Bus company operated bus crashed into the pole at 9:17 a.m., causing approximately 5,000 customers within the area from No. 3 Road to No. 5 Road and Blundell Road and Steveston Highway as well as south of Steveston Highway to lose their power.
According to B.C. Hydro, as of 4:30 p.m. there are still 762 customers without electricity. Crews are working to restore power to all affected customers by 7:30 p.m.
At the time of the crash, there were no passengers inside the bus, but the driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
@news1130traffic No 3 Road closed at Steveston and Steveston 1 lane westbound #Richmond pic.twitter.com/BmuFDOP7Cs
— Kevin Skipworth (@kevinskipworth) February 7, 2015
@TransLink bus crashes at No 3/Steveston Hwy. Taking out telephone pole, lines sparking on road. pic.twitter.com/KPYXzOWXVB”
— rottenrocket (@rottenrocket) February 7, 2015
Update | #RichmondBC outage after bus hits a power pole. Crews hope to restore by 6:30pm: http://t.co/HWCWpVeNM8 pic.twitter.com/yfSkEU5VwU — BC Hydro (@bchydro) February 7, 2015
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