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Truck With Oversized Load Hits Summertown Utility Line; Closes Road

SUMMERTOWN, TN – A truck hauling an oversized load struck a utility line on a Summertown roadway Monday afternoon.  The vehicle was said to have snagged the line which resulted in the utility pole being pulled down.  The incident, first reported around 3:30 p.m., shutdown Turnpike Road near the Locker Road intersection.  The well traveled roadway was closed for sometime while crews cleared the incident.  A similar matter occurred Saturday that blacked out Internet service for several hours for a portion of Lawrenceburg.  A piece of farm equipment allegedly struck a utility line east of Bobby Brewer Park just after 1 p.m. which resulted a fiber line belonging to Cloud 9 Internet being ripped in half.  Crews with the local Internet service provider worked for around nine hours to fix the damage.