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Serious Accident Knocks Out Power in Coventry, EG
A car smashed into a pole on JP Murphy Highway in West Warwick, knocking out power across Kent County.
A serious accident on James P. Murphy Industrial Highway in West Warwick knocked out power to nearly 600 National Grid electricity customers in Coventry and East Greenwich at around 11:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.
West Warwick firefighters extricated two people from a car that crashed into a telephone pole and both victims were transported to area hospitals.
The crash caused live high-tension wires to fall onto the vehicle and firefighters had to work carefully to free the victims from the wreckage.
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National Grid has responded to the scene.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
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National Grid reported 390 customers in Coventry and 43 in East Greenwich were still without power as of 12:30 a.m. The outage reportedly reached as far as the Covenry Walmart.
An additional 166 customers were without power in West Warwick.
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