The crash happened near Club Boulevard and Duke University Hospital. A stretch of Hillandale Road was closed for about an hour while crews cleaned up the wreckage.
The bulk of the outages looked to be around the I-85/NC-147/15-501 corridor, according to Duke Energy's map. ABC11 chopper footage showed a car badly damaged with its front end smashed into the pole head-on.
Durham Police Department said the driver had minor injuries and was treated at the scene of the crash.