SUV shears utility pole, closes street in Granby

GRANBY, Mass. (WWLP) - Granby police closed a section of School Street Friday night while National Grid repair crews worked to replace a utility pole snapped off in a single vehicle crash.

Granby Police Officer Kurt Carpenter told 22News that a 63-year-old South Hadley man was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries after his SUV hit and sheared a utility pole in front of 7 School Street just before 6:00 pm.

"The victim was alert and conscious.  He was alone in the vehicle," Patrolman Carpenter said.

Officer Carpenter said there was no power outage as a result of the accident.

School Street is closed from Batchelor Street to Route 202, which is also East State Street.  Carpenter said National Grid hopes to have the pole replacement completed and the road reopened by 11:00 Friday night.

Patrolman Carpenter said the SUV crashed into the pole about 200 yards from where a pedestrian was hit and killed on School Street earlier this week.  Carpenter said it is a straightaway, and that there doesn't seem to be anything particularly dangerous about that stretch of road.