{"id":557937,"date":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","slug":"power-restored-for-hundreds-after-car-crashes-into-pole-in-raleigh-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557937\/","title":{"rendered":"Power restored for hundreds after car crashes into pole in Raleigh :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash on Wednesday knocked out power for hundreds of people along Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. <\/p>\n<p>Duke Energy&#8217;s outage map showed 19 customers without power as of 4 a.m. The number affected dropped from 400 customers earlier this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most outages were restored by 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh police responded to a driver who ran into a utility pole at Glenwood Avenue and E. Whitaker Mill Road, in the Five Points community.<\/p>\n<p>The crash closed the road where a pole was seen split in half and a car appeared seriously damaged on a sidewalk. Police say there were no serious injuries and the driver was not believed to be intoxicated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Duke Energy crews were called to restore power for at least 400 people in the area impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The WRAL Breaking News Tracker captured video of crews working to remove debris from Glenwood Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WRAL News is working to learn what led up to the crash and if anyone got hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash on Wednesday knocked out power for hundreds of people along Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. Duke Energy&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,451,3,23298,247581,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-557937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-power-outage","14":"tag-raleigh-police","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}