UPDATE: The city of Grand Rapids says power has been restored to 95% of those who lost it early Thursday morning. There is still a small outage, stretching along Fuller from Michigan to Fulton, while crews work to repair the hit utility pole.
The City of Grand Rapids says a car hit a utility pole near Fuller and Innes and knocked out power and traffic lights from Bradford to 28th St.and Eastern Ave. from Wealthy to 28th St. early Thursday morning.
The city says the damaged pole is a Consumers Energy transmission pole, which requiree certain safety protocols before repairs could begin.
Remember to treat intersections with traffic lights out as four-way stops.
Grand Rapids
Power outage leaves around 2,500 Eastown-area customers in the dark
At its height, Consumers Energy outage map showed around 2,500 customers were impacted.
Grand Rapids Police did not share any information about the car involved.
