The following story has been revised with additional information provided by the city Utilities Division.
A vehicle hit a power pole in the 700 block of Charleston Road on Sunday (Aug. 6) at about 8 a.m., causing a power outage to part of Palo Alto, according to the city Utilities Division.
Power was cut to approximately 1,100 customers in the Meadow Park, Charleston Gardens and Charleston Village neighborhoods.
The initial estimated time for restoration was 1 p.m. Crews restored service for a few hundred customers around noon, according to Utilities spokeswoman Catherine Elvert.
All but 459 customers had service restored by 1 p.m. Power was restored for the remaining customers around 7:45 p.m., according to Elvert. Crews continued to work on repairs to the power pole and equipment to restore service until around 8 p.m., which is why the road remained closed for safety reasons.
Some days in Palo Alto you’re truly living off the grid, whether you want to or not.
They”re car crashes … not unavoidable, unforeseeable , blameless “accidents.”
In an accident a car crashes. You don’t know what caused the crash, only that it crashed.
Rarely do people intend to have car crashes — that’s why they’re called car accidents. I guess it wouldn’t be an accident if you drove over to Walmart to rundown your wife’s boyfriend in the parking lot. But 99% are accidents.
I think Adrian’s issue with the language is that it erases the driver’s responsibility. We call things accidents when we don’t want to put the blame on anyone However, the driver should be held responsible for this accident because they are to blame for it.
That’s why insurance companies (and sometimes the media) refer to the situation as a “collision.” A collision doesn’t erase driver responsibility.
saying “crashes” assumes the fault belongs to the driver — without knowing the facts … it’s better not to assign blame until you know what happened …
If you just hate cars, then of course you’re going to push for language that always blames the driver no matter what the facts might be
Maybe Adrian has a political agenda against cars