Car Crash Cuts Down Telephone Pole
By Brett Nelson - Friday, May 12, 2000
A car smashed into a wood pole at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, splitting it in half and knocking out phone lines.
No one was injured in the accident. However traffic was slowed down for an hour immediately after the accident. At about 7:15 p.m., Brunswick Road was completely closed down from Sutton Way to Loma Rica Lane while Pacific Bell phone company crews tried to repair the lines and install a new pole.
The driver of a Camaro, Corry Chamberlain, 19, struck the pole, said Engineer Rob Penn of the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Protection District, station 85. The motorist was turning left from Brunswick Road onto Idaho Maryland Road when the rear end of his car began swerving and hit the pole, which was about 50 feet from the intersection, said Val Vassar, a witness to the accident.
Vassar was behind the motorist when the accident happened, but said she was driving slow enough to avoid being involved.
The pole that was hit snapped in half and fell across Idaho Maryland Road, knocking phone lines to the ground. The lines were down across Brunswick Road, where it was connected by another wooden pole.
Nevada County Consolidated Fire Protection District, the California Highway Patrol, Nevada County Sheriff's Department, Sierra Nevada Ambulance and Pacific Gas & Electric Company also helped out during the incident.
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