Crash cuts power to 12 homes

This Land Rover hit a power pole after an accident and cut power to several Scouthead homes

A DOZEN homes were left without power after a car crash brought down electricity cables and blocked a road in Scouthead.

A Land Rover Discovery collided with a parked Honda Jazz in heavy snow in Lower Turf Lane at 4pm yesterday. No-one was injured.

Police and United Utilities staff made the area safe and engineers were working overnight to repair the overhead power line.

A spokesman for United Utilities said: “The damage was quite extensive and we are having to replace the pole and the electricity cable itself.”

Power to all 12 homes was expected to be restored by mid-morning.

Resident Aileen Wood, who looks after her elderly mum, said heavy snow had made the roads horrendous.

She said: “There was such an almighty bang. A large 4x4 had gone into a post and caught a little red car coming up the road. They chopped the post in half and all the the cables were down. It was a right mess.”