{"id":820108,"date":"2026-07-23T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:30:10","slug":"vehicle-collision-knocks-out-power-to-thousands-in-southeast-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820108\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle collision knocks out power to thousands in southeast Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A large section of southeast Winnipeg was without power Wednesday night, after Manitoba Hydro says a vehicle collided with an electrical box in the Southdale area.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro spokesperson Peter Chura said the crash happened at about 6:15 p.m., knocking out power to approximately 2,800 customers.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to CBC at 7:17 p.m., Chura said it could take between four and six hours for crews to fix the damage and fully restore power, although that estimate could change as the work proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he said crews were working to bypass the damaged line and restore service to &#8220;at least some of the affected area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By 10 p.m., the outages appeared to have spread, with all of Sage Creek affected, as well as several areas west of the original outages.<\/p>\n<p>More updates can be found on Manitoba Hydro&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/account.hydro.mb.ca\/Portal\/outeroutage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A map of southeast Winnipeg with areas shaded in pink.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784781010_695_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.8473118279569893\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Manitoba Hydro&#8217;s map shows the areas shaded in pink affected by power outages as of 10 p.m. Wednesday. (Manitoba Hydro)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-820108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}