Power was restored to hundreds of homes in New Brighton after a car crash caused an outage Sunday night.

At least 600 Duquesne Light customers were without power after a car crashed into a pole around 10 p.m. on Penn Avenue, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported.

Police told the station that the driver was not hurt.

As of 4 a.m., Duquesne Light’s outage website showed power had been fully restored.

At 4:30 a.m., WPXI was reporting that Penn Avenue remained closed at Allegheny Street as crews were still at the scene.

Brian Rittmeyer is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Brian at 724-226-4701, brittmeyer@tribweb.com or via Twitter @BCRittmeyer.

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