Car crash into transformer apparently causes power outage in Surfside Beach area
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Published: May. 28, 2018 at 8:41 AM EDT|Updated: May. 28, 2018 at 8:42 AM EDT
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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) – Nearly 1,500 Santee Cooper customers were without power Monday morning, apparently after a car crashed into an electric substation along Dick Pond Road near Surfside Beach.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol website shows the crash happened at about 2:20 a.m. A WMBF News photographer at the scene of the substation saw a damaged transformer and a car being loaded onto a tow truck.
The Santee Cooper website showed that 1,470 customers were without power at that time.
As of 4:30 a.m., power had been restored to all but seven customers in the Myrtle Beach area.
WMBF News has reached out to SCHP for details on what caused the crash.
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