A driver was injured after sheering a utility pole in Pittsburgh’s Stanton Heights neighborhood.

Officers responded to the single-vehicle crash in the 4200 block of Stanton Avenue around 2:17 a.m., a police spokeswoman said.

The car had crashed into a utility pole, bringing down wires and pulling a utility box off a house.

The driver was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Stanton Avenue was closed but has since reopened.

Police were continuing to investigate.

BREAKING: driver crashes into pole in Stanton Heights…. it fell on a woman’s car and service line, knocking out her power @WPXI pic.twitter.com/GTwDSvShxa

— Liz Kilmer (@LizKilmerWPXI) May 2, 2019

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