No one was injured Thursday evening when a tractor-trailer snagged a fiber-optic cable, breaking a utility pole and dropping wires on a Norwin school bus in North Huntingdon, emergency officials said.
Irwin Fire Chief Justin Mochar said the truck was turning from Caruthers Lane onto Laurel Avenue around 4:40 p.m. when it snagged the cable.
The bus was carrying students from Hahntown Elementary School, and was able to continue on its way after West Penn Power crews removed the lines, Mochar said.
“The bus, with one student on it, had been parked and awaiting the arrival or the power company, to deactivate the wires,” Norwin communications director Jonathan Szish said. “The district would like to thank the bus driver, bus monitor, student and utility companies for their responses to this situation.”
The scene was cleared around 5 p.m.
West Penn crews at the scene said an outage related to the crash was affecting about 100 customers. The company’s outage map showed no outages in the area as of 9:30 p.m.
