{"id":93926,"date":"2025-12-14T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/93926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:22:11","slug":"vehicle-crash-causes-power-lines-to-come-down-at-major-fresno-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/93926\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle crash causes power lines to come down at major Fresno intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A vehicle collision Saturday caused power lines to come down in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The collision happened just after 11 a.m. at First Street and Ashlan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post, the Fresno Fire Department said the traffic accident \u201cresulted in a damaged power pole and downed power lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The intersection is closed as well as north, south, east and west of Ashlan, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drivers are asked to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PG&amp;E is also reporting a power outage due to the collision. At least 2,700 customers are affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police Lt. Tim Tietjen said a driver lost control of their vehicle and struck a power pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported and the driver of the vehicle was not intoxicated, Tietjen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The intersection is expected to be closed off for the next hour.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A traffic crash caused a power line to come down and resulted in traffic jams on Ashlan Avenue, near First Street.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f200198fa472ef40f7aa337ea26b7fa2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A traffic crash caused a power line to come down and resulted in traffic jams on Ashlan Avenue, near First Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle collision Saturday caused power lines to come down in Fresno. The collision happened just after 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,51637,4967],"class_list":{"0":"post-93926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-power-lines","12":"tag-power-pole"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}