TOPEKA (KSNT) – A number of homes and businesses in south and southwest Topeka were without power Wednesday afternoon after a vehicle hit a power pole.
Evergy reported that just over 640 of its customers were without power in Topeka on Oct. 21. The power company first reported the outage just before 12:25 p.m. The area impacted by the outage consisted of southwest and south Topeka.
Evergy spokesman Matt Lucht told 27 News that a vehicle struck a power pole at 12:20 p.m. in the area of Southwest 42nd Street and Southwest Martin Street.
Lucht said Evergy turned the power off for safety reasons while crews worked at the scene. He said power was restored at 1:45 p.m. for all Evergy customers impacted by the outage.
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