DUI Related Accident Led To Power Outage in Oconee County Monday, SCHP Says

According to arrest records from the Oconee County Detention Center, 61 year-old Stan Kent McCall was charged with open container and DUI by the South Carolina Highway Patrol after his arrest Monday afternoon near Salem.

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative reported more than 440 customers lost service when a pickup truck flipped a guy wire apparatus across an energized line in the vicinity of Choehee Valley and Tamassee Knob Roads.

No one was hurt, and McCall remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center pending bond.