More than 4,000 people in a Seattle suburb lost power on Friday after a woman driving naked crashed her car into a utility pole, police said. There were live power wires down on the car when a police sergeant came across the crash scene in Shoreline, just north of Seattle, around 1:30 a.m., said Detective Jason Houck, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Department.
Firefighters and utility crews disabled the wires and found a 24-year-old woman inside the car who was in and out of consciousness. She was not wearing any clothes, he said. The woman, who was not badly injured, was taken to a hospital where blood was drawn to determine if she was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Houck said.
She could face criminal charges depending on the outcome of the test. The crash knocked out power to about 4,400 people for about four hours, Houck said. Seattle City Light had power restored by about 5:30 a.m., the utility said."Many people didn't know until they woke up late for work because their alarms didn't go off," Houck said. No one else was harmed during this incident except for the naked woman in the car.
Seattle City Light, is the public utility providing electrical power to Seattle, Washington, US, and parts of its metropolitan area, including all of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park and parts of unincorporated King County, Burien, Normandy Park, Seetac, Renton, and Tukwila. Seattle City Light is the 10th largest public utility in the United States and the first municipal utility in the US to own and operate a hydroelectric facility. The approximately 776,336 residents (418,000 metered customers) served by Seattle City Light use about 9,466,642 megawatt-hours annually. Seattle City Light was the first electric utility in the nation to become greenhouse gas neutral (2005) and has the longest running energy conservation program in the country.
