STAUNTON, VA (Rocktown Now) — A traffic accident last evening knocked power out to a portion of Staunton.

The incident happened at around 6:30 in the area of Statler Boulevard and North Coalter Street.

A vehicle struck and knocked down a telephone pole with an electrical transformer attached and then hit a second telephone pole and damaged that.

The crash forced authorities to close that intersection for most of the evening for Dominion crews to fix both broken poles and power lines.