Sunday morning accident knocks out power to North Cheney

About 500 Cheney Light customers in the north end of the city were without power for part of Sunday after a vehicle struck a main switch cabinet on the southwest side of North Sixth Street in front of the Cheney School District transportation yard.

Cheney Police Department Cmdr. Rick Campbell said at 7:01 a.m., dispatch received a call of a vehicle that had failed to negotiate a left hand turn off Betz Road onto North Sixth Street due to icy conditions and struck the cabinet. The driver of the vehicle was uninjured, but the impact inflicted major damage to the cabinet, causing a short circuit...

 

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