DAYTON — UPDATE:
As of 3 p.m., power has been restored to most who were experiencing the outage.
INITIAL REPORT:
AES Customers in Montgomery County are experiencing power outages due to a car crash.
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As of 2:30 p.m. Friday, 2,006 customers in Montgomery County are without power.
The power outage was caused by a car accident at the intersection of Smithville Road and Radio Road in Dayton, according to an AES spokesperson.
Crews are on site working to restore power.
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According to the AES Outage Map, the outage was reported at 12:35 p.m. Friday.
It is unknown when crews expect to get power back.
We will continue to update this story.
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