Traffic incident with damaged utility pole and power outage, Ellicott City MD


A traffic incident occurred near Sarahs Ln involving a damaged utility pole that remains standing but with significant base damage. A vehicle is across the roadway, causing some confusion about the hazard. Nearby houses are experiencing a power outage due to the incident.
Audio|Source: Howard County Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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He also let BGE know,
00:02
the pole is still standing straight up, but just with a significant damage to the bottom, and there's a couple of houses with outage.
00:09
Six of a hour. Can I get a lockbox code for box number 34, DID (number withheld)?
00:16
All right. Are you able to read the pole number again?
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Stand by.
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That one.
00:27
Part 3-1, the pole number is going to be 55605.
00:34
And can you let Lenny's know to come up on,
00:37
like, from the Westbound mission?
00:41
105, Howard.
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105.
00:45
Transporting priority 2 to 223.
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1732.
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L.A. 31.
00:55
Go ahead.
00:57
Our initial report was that there was a pole across the roadway. Is that not true?
01:03
That's not true.
01:05
Okay, just a single pole still standing and is damaged.
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That's right, and the car is across the roadway. I guess that might be a confusion.
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Sample, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near Sarahs Ln, Ellicott City, MD 21043
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