Nassau traffic signals restored after outage, cops say
Traffic signals were back in operation by around 1:30 p.m., Nassau County police said, following a malfunction that earlier in the day affected signals in areas of Hicksville, Woodbury and Plainview.
The root cause — loss of a transmission line — was resolved after about a half-hour without power, officials said.
Police said the outage affected signals on Old Country Road and surrounding streets. Police issued an advisory urging drivers to use caution at 9:14 a.m. A PSEG spokeswoman, Elizabeth Flagler, said the issue had been remedied by 9:43 a.m. Police had said earlier, however, that some of the signals had to be reset.
Police said there were no reported accidents as a result of the power outage and signal malfunctions.
The incident also briefly left 5,000 customers without power — which has since been restored, Flagler said.
John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”
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