VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A single-vehicle crash at the intersection of Kempsville Road and Providence Road caused power outages in the area on Friday.
The Dominion Energy Outage Map showed the outage affected about 1,350 customers at 1:50 p.m., was caused by a car accident. Dominion Energy Spokesperson Bonita Billingsley-Harris told us that the outage initially affected 3,300 customers.
Virginia Beach dispatch said the call came in around 1 p.m.
At least one person might have been hurt, but the ambulance is still at the scene so no one has been transported yet, dispatch said.
Dominion Energy crews were at the scene of the crash working with Virginia Beach fire crews.
The whole intersection will be closed for the next few hours. Initial estimates said the lights could be off until 6-11 p.m.
By 4:45 p.m., spokeswoman Bonita Billingsley Harris said there were only 125 customers affected by the Kempsville accident still without power.
