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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A powerfulness outage successful Clovis aboriginal Wednesday greeting was owed to a convulsive car clang that near the operator successful captious information successful the hospital, according to the Clovis Police Department.
Police accidental astatine astir 2 a.m. crash, officers responded to Sylmar and Barstow avenues wherever they determined that the operator of an Alfa Romeo had been driving westbound connected Barstow Avenue astatine an highly precocious complaint of speed.
The operator was transported to Community Regional Medical Center with captious injuries and their conveyance was near totaled. A photograph from the country provided by the Clovis Police Department shows the wreck of the conveyance upside down with each its wheels detached.
The country wherever the clang took spot is instantly aft a emergence successful the roadworthy wherever Barstow Avenue goes implicit a canal. The conveyance stopped aft it crashed into a adjacent obstruction and aggregate airy poles.
"We impulse drivers to beryllium liable erstwhile down the wheel, and we are thankful nary 1 other was injured this time," Ty Wood with the Clovis Police Department said.
Officials adhd that the clang meant aggregate metropolis blocks mislaid powerfulness and a large roadway was closed for overmuch of the time to let repairs to beryllium completed.
YourCentralValley.com was fixed entree to information footage showing the clang taking place, but owed to the velocity of the crash, the lone representation of the incidental is the screenshot shown above.
At this time, constabulary accidental intoxicant is suspected to beryllium a factor. The sanction of the operator progressive was not officially released.
