Crime & Safety
NOW OPEN: Car into Utility Pole on Horning; Road Closed from Broughton to Curry
Already congested construction area gets another traffic wrinkle.
UPDATE (7:24 p.m.): Duquesne Light has arrived on the scene and reopened the road.
A car crashed crashed into a utility pole on Horning Road in south at around 4:50 p.m. on Monday, causing Horning to be closed between Curry Road and the already congested .
The and the are on the scene and have cleared the wrecked car away, but the utility pole that the car struck is badly cracked, causing the road to be unsafe for drivers and pedestrians.
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South Baldwin fire Chief Joe Cambest told the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch that crews from Duquesne Light will determine if the road can be reopened so that the pole can be fixed at a later time or if the pole will need to be fixed immediately.
No one was seriously injured. Traffic is being blocked from that area of the road, and vehicles are having to find detours around the closure.
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