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Cable, truck cause $5,500 in damage
  
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by Jason Przybycien
przybycj@tiogapublishing.com
A truck driver has been cited for a related traffic offense, but questions still remain after a short spot power outage July 22 in Wellsboro.
According to Wellsboro Borough Police Officer Sam Delosa, a delivery truck which had just left Tioga Publishing Co. proceeded up Walnut Street. Truck traffic is prohibited on the street, and Delosa later cited the driver, Thomas J. Patt of Williamsport, for driving there.
That does not sort out who is responsible for the subsequent power outage and related damage to a building at the corner of Pearl and Waln streets, a block away. The truck reportedly caught an inactive fiberoptic line and guide wire owned by Level 3 Communications Inc., Coudersport, and broke a utility pole off at its base. This caused a power outage in the immediate area from about 2 p.m. until shortly before 3 p.m.
Delosa said the truck was at its legal height, so the line must have been too low. Though that might make Level 3 liable, it was not an offense Delosa could cite them for.
According to Wellsboro Borough Police Officer Sam Delosa, a delivery truck which had just left Tioga Publishing Co. proceeded up Walnut Street. Truck traffic is prohibited on the street, and Delosa later cited the driver, Thomas J. Patt of Williamsport, for driving there.
That does not sort out who is responsible for the subsequent power outage and related damage to a building at the corner of Pearl and Waln streets, a block away. The truck reportedly caught an inactive fiberoptic line and guide wire owned by Level 3 Communications Inc., Coudersport, and broke a utility pole off at its base. This caused a power outage in the immediate area from about 2 p.m. until shortly before 3 p.m.
Delosa said the truck was at its legal height, so the line must have been too low. Though that might make Level 3 liable, it was not an offense Delosa could cite them for.
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