Monday, June 22, 2026

Truck snags power lines, causes outage in York County

Nearly 100 York County residents were without power Wednesday after a vehicle snagged on cable over Ella Taylor Road and broke a utility pole. (Courtesy Dominion Energy)
Nearly 100 York County residents were without power Wednesday after a vehicle snagged on cable over Ella Taylor Road and broke a utility pole. (Courtesy Dominion Energy)

Update 4:22 p.m.: According to Bonita Billingsley Harris, spokeswoman with Dominion Energy, power was restored at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday. 

Nearly 100 York County residents were without power Wednesday after a vehicle snagged a cable over Ella Taylor Road and broke a utility pole.

According to county spokeswoman Gail Whittaker, maintenance workers fixing a sewer line in the area called to report the damaged pole.

The workers believed a truck or moving van caused the damaged, Whittaker said.

Whatever vehicle damaged the pole, it was large enough to snag on a cable attached to it, said Bonita Billingsley Harris, spokeswoman with Dominion Energy.

Harris said the damage to the pole knocked out power to 97 customers around 9:30 a.m.

Crews were called to the scene to restore power, which Harris estimated would be by 6 p.m. Wednesday. But Dominion’s online outage center states it could be as late as 8 p.m.

A county alert said cable and phone service were also out in the area.

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