GILROY
– Pacific Gas
&
amp; Electric has been unable to figure out what caused a power
outage for two hours Tuesday afternoon, a company spokesman said
Wednesday.
GILROY – Pacific Gas & Electric has been unable to figure out what caused a power outage for two hours Tuesday afternoon, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
“Sometimes we just don’t know the cause,” PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith said. “That was the case in this instance.”
One hundred and seventy-six PG&E customers in Gilroy lost electrical power from 3:20 p.m. to 5:15 Tuesday, according to Smith.
One of things that stopped working was the traffic light at Santa Teresa Boulevard and Mesa Drive, by Gavilan College – a situation that led to a two-vehicle collision. California Highway Patrol officers reported that the light was still non-operational when the wreck occurred at 5:50 – 35 minutes after PG&E reportedly restored power.
When power is out at a stoplight, the state Vehicle Code says drivers must treat it as a four-way stop sign, CHP officer Brad Voyles said.
A 21-year-old Hollister woman didn’t do that and the result was a collision that sent her and three other people to the hospital.
“She failed to yield to the (vehicle) that was already at the intersection,” Voyles said.
The woman’s 2002 Honda Accord struck a 2003 GMC Yukon driven by a 38-year-old Hollister woman with two boys, aged 9 and 6, who share her last name and address.
The injuries were all minor. The Honda driver received cuts on her head, and the others complained of pain. An ambulance took the two drivers to Saint Louise Regional Hospital, and a relative drove the boys to the hospital.
