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CHARLOTTE — A crash in southwest Charlotte downed power lines causing outages and closed a stretch of road for hours on Tuesday.
The crash happened before 10:45 a.m. on Sandy Porter Road between Arrowood Road and South Tryon Street. A Channel 9 crew at the scene saw the road still closed as of 12 p.m.
According to Duke Energy’s outage map, 1,463 customers were without power at 12:30 p.m. All power was restored by Tuesday afternoon.
#BREAKING: Sandy Porter Rd. is CLOSED in a stretch between Arrowood Rd. & S. Tryon due to a crash that involves downed pole/lines. @DukeEnergy is reporting around 1500 outages with a 3:15PM full restoration time. Update at noon on @wsoctv #clt #clttraffic #cltraffic pic.twitter.com/UBGS40u5PC
— Traffic Team 9 (@TrafficTeam9) January 25, 2022
(WATCH BELOW: CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Car on fire slides down uptown road before crashing into curb)
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