Route 356 reopens after crash took out pole, closed road
A stretch of Route 356 between Route 56 and Freeport has reopened after a crash that brought down a pole and wires Friday morning, a Westmoreland County emergency dispatcher said.
The one-vehicle crash happened shortly after 5:30 a.m. when the driver of a pickup was pulling into his own driveway, the dispatcher said.
No one was hurt, the official said.
Route 356 was closed to traffic for about a mile between Williams and Fire Hall roads.
Allegheny Township police could not be reached for information about the crash.
As of 6:50 a.m., West Penn Power was reporting 86 customers without power. That number was down to less than 5 shortly after 10 a.m.
Brian C. Rittmeyer, a Pittsburgh native and graduate of Penn State University's Schreyer Honors College, has been with the Trib since December 2000. He can be reached at brittmeyer@triblive.com.
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