Accident on Airbase Road linked to road construction

The driver of this car escaped injury after a power line was pulled across Airbase Road on May 9. The accident happened as a vehicle with the Idaho Transportation Department caught the overhead powerlines as crews were making repairs to the state road.

People avoided serious injury after an Idaho Transportation Department vehicle tore down a power line and triggered a crash on Airbase Road on May 9.

State highway road crews were working on patching the westbound lane when the top of a raised asphalt truck bed caught power lines crossing the road around 11:30 a.m.

The truck continued down the road, pulling with it the power lines and a transformer attached to a power pole. The pole and transformer then ripped free, landing on the windshield of a Subaru sport utility vehicle traveling eastbound toward town.

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