Owensville police said a tractor-trailer driver following a GPS route to a local warehouse pulled down a telephone line and an electric line around 4 p.m. Monday, cutting power to portions of the …
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Owensville police said a tractor-trailer driver following a GPS route to a local warehouse pulled down a telephone line and an electric line around 4 p.m. Monday, cutting power to portions of the city’s north-side residents.
He had been provided with a handwritten map by his dispatchers, giving him a route around local construction which has closed Springfield Road, police patrolman Josh Smith told The Republican. Instead, he followed his GPS which took him onto Maple from Memorial Park.
A block in on Maple, he had snagged a phone line. A block later at the intersection with Apple, the power line was hung up on his rig. Ameren Missouri linemen and a Fidelity crew had repairs completed around 6 p.m.
