By James Bell
Hays Post

Members of the Hays Police Department, Ellis County Sheriff and a large contingent of workers from Midwest Energy worked to clear an accident scene at East Seventh and Canterbury following a vehicle knocking over a power pole near the intersection around 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The pole came to rest on top of the vehicle.

The accident caused up to 27 people in the area to lose power, according to the Midwest Energy outage map.

Traffic was directed around the scene for over an hour on both streets as Midwest Energy workers replaced the pole and removed the pole that came to rest on the vehicle.

By 5:45 p.m. the scene had been cleared and power had been restored.

The cause of the accident is unknown at this time.

Hays Post will update the story as information becomes available.