HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Nearly 1,000 Dominion Energy customers were left without power Thursday morning after a crash near Gayton Elementary School in Henrico’s West End.
The school is scheduled to open two-hours late Thursday due to the outage.
“There was a vehicle accident that knocked out power to the school and some of the surrounding neighborhoods,” a Henrico Schools spokesperson said. “A power crew is on the scene to make repairs, and the estimated restoration time appears to be between 9 a.m. and Noon.”
At one point overnight, more than 4,000 Dominion customers were without power in the area.
Details about the crash have not yet been released.
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