Vehicle hits power pole, causing outage and flashing lights, Norfolk VA


A vehicle struck a power pole near West Ocean View Avenue, causing a transformer to blow and a power outage. The traffic lights are flashing at the intersection of 4th View Street and West Ocean View Avenue, resulting in a hazardous condition. Power has since been restored, and traffic is flowing fine.
Audio|Source: Norfolk City Police Dispatch - 2nd Precinct
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Transcript:
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To be advised,
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Near West Ocean View Avenue, just lost all power. Heard maybe a transformer blow or something in case you had a call.
00:09
Copy that, thank you.
00:10
Thank you. Thank you for that, sir.
00:16
Our phone line just lit up.
00:22
Yeah, no problem.
00:24
Looks like the power is back on.
00:27
Copy. 2.23.
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Go ahead.
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Yes, ma'am, you can show me back in service.
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Copy.
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Matt,
00:52
Can you change it to a 123 chance at least actually got a following warrant on file?
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1223 radio.
01:05
Go ahead.
01:10
I guess there's going to be a few of these, but you let the light man know, a fourth view and west ocean views flasher.
01:17
Well, what we have right now is a vehicle ran into a power pole and transformer blew up, so yeah, we're probably going to need the million out there as well. What do you have? Where is it?
01:28
Intersection of 4th View Street and West Ocean View Avenue, the lights are flashing.
01:32
The light man can come reset.
01:35
Traffic's flowing fine.
01:36
Okay, I copy.
01:37
I'm getting an accident coming in as well. They have a hazardous condition, but it could ease be an accident.
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Thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near W Ocean View Ave, Norfolk, VA 23503
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