{"id":862007,"date":"2026-09-27T02:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862007\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:46:21","slug":"hundreds-lose-power-after-crash-takes-down-pole-in-ephrata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862007\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds lose power after crash takes down pole in Ephrata"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds lose power after crash takes down pole in Ephrata<\/p>\n

\"AJ<\/a>EPHRATA, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

Hundreds are without power after a single-vehicle accident in Ephrata, Lancaster County. <\/p>\n

Above video: Saturday, Sept. 26 WGAL Morning Headlines<\/p>\n

Emergency dispatchers told WGAL News 8 that a car crashed and went through a pole before 10 p.m. Saturday night at the intersection of Reading Road and Meadow Valley Road.<\/p>\n

According to the PPL Outage Map<\/a>, more than 700 customers are without power in the Ephrata area. The map said the area is estimated to be restored by 8 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

One occupant was in the car. First responders evaluated the driver, but did not transport them to a medical facility. <\/p>\n

Dispatchers say fire, police and medical personnel are on scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds lose power after crash takes down pole in Ephrata EPHRATA, Pa. \u2014 Hundreds are without power after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,6906,10112,328273,363806,10070,363805,451,9079,50307,22326,363801,290555,3,3234,221838,1583,5568,363802,363803,363804,6318,95085,452,453,1977,18466,49975],"class_list":["post-862007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-ephrata","tag-ephrata-area","tag-fire","tag-fire-police","tag-headlines","tag-hundred","tag-intersection","tag-lancaster-county","tag-meadow-valley-road","tag-medical-personnel","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pole","tag-police","tag-power","tag-ppl","tag-ppl-outage-map","tag-reading-road","tag-saturday","tag-sept","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-video","tag-wgal","tag-wgal-news-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862007","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=862007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}