(Updated) – The St. Joseph Police Department worked multiple car crashes within an hour Friday morning.

Shortly before 9 a.m. authorities responded to the 4100 block of King Hill Ave. after a car hit a pole knocking an electrical line down.

Sgt. Kevin Cummings said the crash knocked out the signal lights at the intersection of King Hill and Lake Ave.  Officer Matt Kneib said the driver of the vehicle refused medical treatment at the scene but later called for an ambulance for treatment related to the crash after arriving home.

The crash knocked out power in the area; KCP&L’s power outage map as of noon showed fewer than five customers were still impacted by an outage that began around 8:50 a.m. on King Hill Ave.  Kneib said KCP&L will have to replaced the pole completely.

While crews were working that crash a second crash took place in the 3600 block of King Hill Ave.

 

Sgt. Cummings said a man rear ended another vehicle.  Cummings said according to the crash report, the man reported that he rear ended someone and that the other driver took off.  The caller sustained a minor head injury.  Refused treatment at the scene. Police are still investigating the crash.

A third crash took place not long after that around 9:52 a.m. in the 2700 block of Messanie.

“She was going east, he was going west.  She had a seizure and obviously lost control of her vehicle and crashed into him,”said Officer Leroy Barnes.

Both the woman driving the Black SUV and the man driving the red SUV were checked out by EMS on scene but no one was transported to the hospital.  No tickets were issued.

Cummings said he does not believe the crashes have a link to Black Friday shopping because none of them took place on the Belt highway.