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Semi hits power lines in Hennessey; six vehicles are reportedly damaged

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Semi hits power lines in Hennessey; six vehicles are reportedly damaged

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Hennessey police were dispatched to 120 S. Arapaho St. at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, about a semi-truck and trailer hitting power lines at the Kingfisher County barn.

When Police Chief Aaron Pitts arrived at the scene, “There were OG&E employees disconnecting their lines and then Pioneer Telephone’s people arrived to disconnect theirs.”

No one was injured in the accident, but five vehicles parked at the barn were damaged from “either the power lines, or the wooden electric pole,” the chief wrote in his report.

Driver of the Estes Express Lines semi-truck was Brandon Harris, 36, Newalla.

He told the police chief that he’d missed his turn into the barn off Oklahoma Avenue and decided to take the entrance off of Arapaho Street.

Harris told police that he saw no signs that semitrucks weren’t allowed on that street.

Harris also told Pitts that the utility line runs from north to south at the entrance “and must have been too short.”

Pitts wrote in his report that he had no way to determine that because the lines were already down when he arrived.

Harris also told police he didn’t see any “new damage” to the tractor-trailer he was driving.

Les Cofer’s vehicle was parked on the northeast corner of the County Barn by the fence, and “took the majority of the damage on the driver’s side rear near the tail light.”

The other five vehicles damaged were parked on the south fence line. They are owned by Michael Tucker, David Roller, Michael Sparks, Michael Grace and Gary Wulffenstein.

Photographs of all damages were taken by the chief and included in the accident report.