Second Napa Pole Crash in Five Days Leaves About 1,000 Without Power
A car hit a utility pole on Golden Gate Drive near the Sonoma-Napa line Sunday, closing the road and cutting power to nearly 1,000 PG&E customers. An SUV crash closed Silverado Trail on Wednesday.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
Sailboats on Richardson Bay below the Sausalito hillside on a sunny day. Photo: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
A crash knocked down a utility pole on Golden Gate Drive near the Sonoma-Napa county line Sunday afternoon, closing the road and leaving nearly 1,000 PG&E customers without power, The Press Democrat reported.
A vehicle drifted off the road and hit the pole, Napa Police Sgt. Dominic Deguilio said. A second vehicle coming the other way couldn't brake in time and struck the fallen pole. No injuries were reported.
Closure: Golden Gate Drive in both directions from Imola Avenue to Foster Road.
Outage: reported to PG&E around 1:20 p.m. Sunday. The utility estimated power would be back by 4 a.m. Monday.
Silverado Trail crash on Wednesday
Four days earlier, on Oct. 21, an SUV knocked down a power pole on Silverado Trail in Napa County, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. That crash left live wires hanging over the road and more than 1,000 PG&E customers without power. CHP closed the road between Zinfandel Lane and Pope Street and told drivers to use Highway 29.
If you see downed lines, stay away and call 911.
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