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Large chunks of Hobsonville point are without power on Tuesday night.
Around 17,000 homes are without power around Hobsonville Point, and some surrounding suburbs, after a power outage hit the area around 7.30pm Tuesday.
Hobsonville, Hobsonville Point, Westgate and River Head areas are all currently without power, according to a Transpower spokesperson.
“We have got crews on there way at the moment”, they said.
Just after 7pm there was a crash involving a vehicle and a power pole on Wisely Rd, but it isn’t certain that the incident caused the outage, police say.
Outages were reported in the area from 7.34pm, according to Vector outages.
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Earlier in the day, in the same area, a truck crashed, flipped over and slid down a bank into a house. Early indications were that there were no serious injuries, but there was some damage to the property.
Local Greg Torchia said it was lucky that nobody was seriously hurt.
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