Power mostly restored in Nashville after car crash, storms cause outages

  Nearly 5,000 Nashville residents were without power Thursday morning after storms rolled through the region and a car struck a utility pole in the city. 

About 1,600 Nashville Electric Service customers remain without power as of 8:35 a.m. 

At the height of an outage on Wednesday evening more than 5,000 Nashville Electric Service customers were without power.

Outages were reported all over the city, especially south of the Interstate 440 loop.  The highest number of outages were in Berry Hill, Bellevue and north of Nashville, according to NES' outage map.

Overnight the number dropped to as low as 1,300 people NES customers affected but about 7:30 a.m. the number spiked back up to 4,953.

A NES spokesperson said the number jumped Thursday after a car hit a pole on Dickerson Pike. 

According to Metro police, the crash took place about 7:30 a.m. near Westchester Drive and at least one injury was reported.

Hundreds of Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation customers in Rutherford and Williamson counties were also without power Thursday morning.

The majority of the storms have moved out of the greater Nashville area, but parts of northern Middle Tennessee were still seeing rain, said Mark Richards, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville.

The greater Nashville area may see more rain Thursday afternoon, but nothing severe, Richards said. 

NES said high winds and heavy rain toppled large trees Wednesday causing power outages for a significant number of customers. 

Nashville weather radar

Reach reporter Mariah Timms at mtimms@tennessean.com or 615-259-8344 and on Twitter @MariahTimms