Power Restored To Thousands After Car Hits Power Pole In Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Thousands of SMUD customer were left without power Tuesday morning after a car hit a power pole in South Sacramento.

The car was traveling eastbound on Mack Road near Franklin Boulevard when hit the pole, causing it to fall on the car, according to a Sacramento Police Department statement.

The driver suffered minor injuries.

According to SMUD, as many as 14,000 customers lost power. Service to almost all customers affected by the outage has since been restored, according to SMUD's outage map.