SEQUIM — A driver was injured and taken to Olympic Medical Center and electrical power was cut to about 750 customers Tuesday afternoon when a pickup truck collided with a utility pole on Old Olympic Highway.
The wreck occurred at about 1:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Old Olympic Highway.
Traffic was detoured onto Lewis Road and U.S. Highway 101.
One-lane travel reopened at about 4:20 p.m., a Clallam County sheriff’s spokesman said.
Frank Simmons, 65, of Sequim was driving a 1990 GMC Sierra west when his truck struck the pole and went into a ditch, according to Clallam County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian King.
Simmons was taken to OMC with non-life-threatening injuries, King said.
His condition was being evaluated in the emergency department late Tuesday afternoon.
Clallam County Public Utility District crews restored electrical power to most of the affected customers by 4 p.m., although PUD spokesman Mike Howe said a few customers along Lemmon Road would remain without power until the pole could be replaced at about midnight
A grass fire burned an area roughly 15 feet by 20 feet, possibly caused by sparking and arcing from the power lines. It was quickly extinguished by Clallam County Fire District No. 3.
King said the cause of the wreck was undetermined and the collision was under investigation.
