Traffic along one of Chapel Hill’s most traveled roads is being diverted Thursday afternoon thanks to a car crash and subsequent road closure.
A key stretch of North Carolina Highway 54 on the town limits of Chapel Hill and Durham — which leads to an exchange with Interstate 40 — closed around 2 p.m. according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s traffic map. The Durham Police Department, which is handling response to the case since it happened in Durham County, confirmed to CBS17 a vehicle crashed into a utility pole near Falconbridge Road and downed several power lines. Emergency responders then worked to clear the area and close the road to avoid damaging the lines, with NCDOT reporting NC 54 as closed in both directions between Falconbridge Road and Farrington Road.
Being a critical east-west thoroughfare between Chapel Hill and Durham, the closure of NC 54 led to significant traffic on other roads detouring the area. Drivers can detour the closure by taking Barbee Chapel Road to Stagecoach Road or Farrington Road while traveling east, and westbound travelers can detour by using I-40 or NC 751 — but many roads in the surrounding area are experiencing more traffic congestion as a result.
As of 4:15 p.m., Duke Energy’s Outage Map did not report any outages for customers in the area as a result of the downed power lines.
According to the NCDOT traffic map and incident notification, NC 54 could reopen in the 6 p.m. hour following repairs to the utility pole, power lines and road.
Photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.
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