A member of the Washington Bottom Volunteer Fire Department walks near a utility pole brought down after a tractor-trailer rig became ensnared in its lines Thursday morning off Harris Highway in Lubeck. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

PARKERSBURG — Around 3,000 people lost power in the area Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning after two separate accidents brought down power lines.

At 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, the Parkersburg Police Department responded to a report of a single vehicle accident in the 1100 block of Avery Street in Parkersburg.

The driver was a 65-year-old man from Belpre.

“The man struck a pole, it fell down and caused two more poles to come down so three poles total,” said Captain R.L. Koher of the Parkersburg Police Department. “A lot of downtown lost power.”

MonPower responded and did repair work on the poles and the downed lines. There were around 1,400 customers who lost power, said MonPower Spokesman Will Boye.

Firefighters and Wood County Sheriff’s deputies gather at the scene of an accident in which a tractor-trailer rig pulled down utility lines off Harris Highway in Lubeck Thursday morning. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

The driver’s name had not been released as of press time, but he was cited for failure to maintain control of the vehicle, police reported.

“There were no injuries reported at the scene,” Koher said.

Power was completely restored by 2 a.m. Thursday morning, Boye said.

At 7:50 a.m. Thursday, the Wood County Sheriff’s Department responded to Harris Highway at Pahlhurst Plaza in the Lubeck area.

The tractor-trailer driver, Leo Lewis, was attempting to make a delivery in the Pahlhurst Plaza area.

Hendrix Ferguson, 4, looks out the window of his mother’s car parked at the Lubeck Volunteer Fire Department as first responders and utility workers gather near where a tractor-trailer rig caught utility lines and pulled down a pole Thursday morning. The downed lines blocked the entrance to Pahlhurst Plaza, where Ferguson and his family live. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

“The semi pulled wires down as it drove through,” Wood County Sheriff Rick Woodyard said. “The lines came down across the roadway, breaking a utility pole.

“There were lines on the ground that were sparking.”

Crews with MonPower soon arrived and began repairing the lines, Woodyard said.

There were no citations listed, the sheriff said.

Although the entrance to Pahlhurst Plaza off Harris Highway is directly across from the Lubeck Volunteer Fire Department station, the Blennerhassett and Washington Bottom departments were on the scene, along with the Wood County Sheriff’s Office and a WVU Medicine Camden Clark ambulance. Mon Power and CAS Cable also responded.

A tractor-trailer rig pulled down utility lines off Harris Highway in Lubeck Thursday morning, leading to a power outage. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Pahlhurst Plaza resident Brie Ferguson was driving back to her house when she found the only road into the neighborhood blocked by downed lines.

“All of that is all across the road,” she said.

The truck wasn’t there when she pulled up and came back out of the neighborhood about five minutes later, Ferguson said.

Fellow Pahlhurst Plaza resident Sadie Bracewell said the limited access to the neighborhood gives residents a feeling of safety but that worked against them Thursday.

Around 1,600 customers had lost power Thursday morning, Boye said, adding power was completely restored by 12:45 p.m.

First responder and utility vehicles are parked near where a tractor-trailer rig pulled down a utility pole and lines Thursday morning off Harris Highway in Lubeck. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

“Whenever we encounter these types of events we work to restore power as quickly and as safely as we can,” Boye said. “We appreciate our customers’ patience as we worked through these outages.”

City Editor Evan Bevins contributed to this story.

Brett Dunlap can be reached at bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com