State Highway 33 reopens after crews fix power lines

NEWDALE — State Highway 33 from Newdale to Tetonia is unfastened to traffic, nan Idaho Transportation Department announced Sunday evening. Crews from Rocky Mountain Power and nan Idaho Transportation Department person completed repairs connected downed powerfulness lines and poles that were damaged Friday by thunderstorms and precocious winds successful nan area.

Electricity was restored to astir customers by Saturday.

While nan road was closed, 1 ITD employee, a 41-year-old man, was injured erstwhile nan driver of a Ford Fusion, a 32-year-old antheral from Rexburg, drove past a roadblock Saturday greeting and struck nan worker while he was opinionated by his activity vehicle. The injured worker was transported by aerial ambulance to an eastbound Idaho hospital.