Crime & Safety

Pick Up Truck Cracks Telephone Pole In Half on Purdy Hill

Police said the driver is being treated at the hospital for minor injuries

A pick up truck snapped a telephone pole in half on Purdy Hill Road, near the intersection of Route 111, this afternoon.

The driver was brought to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and police and power company employees are at the accident scene.

Connecticut Light & Power's map shows 283 of Monroe's 7,902 customers are without power.

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