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vehicle incident causes some williams lake residents to be without power

By Pat Matthews

August 25, 2016

A motor vehicle accident this morning around 8:20 left over two thousand Williams Lake residents without power.

A dump truck clipped a pole at the top of Carson Drive causing the outage.

The driver was not hurt and power went back on shortly after 9am

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Pat Matthews

Pat started working in the Cariboo in 1989 after spending several years in radio in Terrace. He worked in the creative department until 2017 when he switched over to news covering Williams Lake and the South Cariboo as well as being the afternoon host on Country 840 in 100 Mile House.