BARRY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Consumers Energy is responding to an electrical outage Friday evening, after a truck struck a power pole in Barry County, southwest of Hickory Corners.
It happened around 5:33 p.m., at Sheffield Road and Bunbury Lane. That’s close to M-43, near Gull Lake – and close to the Kalamazoo County line.
Barry County Central Dispatch tells FOX 17 a truck hit and severed the utility pole and a tire came off the vehicle. The driver got out of the vehicle, and was not seriously injured.
The Consumers Energy Outage Map indicates somewhere between 200 and 1,000 power outages resulted from the crash. That number had been pared down to 239 outages as of 8:25 p.m., with Consumers estimating full power restoration by 9 p.m. Friday.
Sheffield Road at Bunbury Road was closed for a couple hours.
