A truck hitting a utility pole knocked out power for thousands on the south side of St. Joseph Tuesday.

Power was out for more than two and a half hour Tuesday after Kansas City Power & Light reported that a truck hit a utility pole causing around 4700 individuals and businesses on the South end of St. Joseph to lose electricity.

According to Rebecca Galati, a spokeswoman with KCP&L the outage was originally thought to be due to an equipment failure but once crews arrived on scene to investigate it was determined that the outage was due to an accident involving a utility pole.

The outage first occurred at 11:57 a.m. and was restored to all customers impacted by 2:45.

Neither Galati the Buchanan County Communication Center or the St. Joseph Police Department were able to provide a location of where the accident took place.

Click here for a link to KCP&L’s PowerWatch map.