PITTSBURGH — A car crashed into a telephone pole, which then fell onto a parked car and pulled a utility box off a home Thursday morning in Pittsburgh’s Stanton Heights neighborhood.
The crash was reported shortly after 2 a.m. on Stanton Avenue, cutting off power to a woman’s home.
As the pole fell, bringing down wires with it, it toppled onto the woman’s BMW parked in the driveway and knocked down part of a retaining wall.
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“I seen him coming out of the car and I seen sparks, and here he was staggering and his car was right behind mine,” the woman, who did not want to be identified, said.
The driver was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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