Power cut hits 11,000 homes
MORE than 11,000 homes in Cheltenham were left without power after two consecutive outages.
Motorists found some roads in the town centre were left without functioning traffic lights on a busy Saturday morning.
Western Power, which distributes electricity to homes across the town, said the outages were due to high-voltage faults in the area.
The firm said the majority of homes had power restored within eight minutes – with all homes back on again within half an hour.
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The first outage took place at 9.17am, affecting 994 homes. Then at 10.58am a second fault left 10,275 homes without electricity.
It means there have now been seven power cuts in the town in as many weeks. Last Wednesday 1,800 homes and companies in the centre of the town were left without electricity for up to four hours.
Comments
by still_me
Monday, September 10 2012, 9:36AM
“Matt - I had 2 reports of power cuts across town. Firstly in the Priors Road area and then Wymans Brook a little later.”
by Matt1006
Monday, September 10 2012, 9:24AM
“Whereabouts in Cheltenham was this? Report somewhat lacking in detail on actual locations.....
The traffic lights along Swindon Road / St. Margaret's Road were working (well, they were illuminated) when I passed through about 10.30, but the sequencing (or rather, complete lack of) seemed even worse than normal. Traffic wasn't that busy at the time (fortunately), but it still took an age to get from the sorting office through to Portland Street.”