Power back on for more than 2,000 Boone Electric customers in south Columbia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Boone County Electric Cooperative crews restored power for more than 2,000 customers in south Columbia on Thursday.
The electric co-op tweeted the outage was caused by a truck crash with a power pole near Route K and Vermillion Drive. The tweet said power could have been shut off for four hours. Crews tweeted again around 3 p.m. power had been restored.
Boone County Joint Communications tweeted at 2:46 p.m. that the outage affected a stoplight at the intersection of Old Plank Road and South Providence Road.
Lights were out for co-op customers for about two hours. It's unclear if any people were injured from the crash.